Trump Administration Launches ‘Self-Deportation’ App for Undocumented Immigrants

The Trump administration rolled out an app called CBP Home this Monday to allow illegal immigrants in the United States to “self-deport” and avoid arrest and detention amid the government’s push for deportation.

According to the official announcement, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem explained that the new platform, launched by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), will show users an option to “submit their intent to depart.”

The initiative is part of the Trump administration’s new $200 million advertising campaign “Stay Out and Leave Now” announced on Monday—to encourage immigrants to leave the country.

CBP Home automatically replaces the CBP One app—launched under the Biden administration to allow immigrants to schedule appointments for legal border crossings—which was shut down shortly after Trump took office.

“The Biden Administration exploited the CBP One app to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States,” said Noem. “With the launching of the CBP Home app, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system.”

The new app version is already available for free across multiple mobile app stores.

“The CBP Home app gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream,” said Noem. “If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return.”

According to the BBC, the app also asks migrants if they have “enough money to depart the United States” and if they own a valid passport from a different country. Through CBP Home users can also manage I-94 entry and exit cards and book certain inspections at US border crossings.