The Trump administration is repurposing the CBP One app that allowed migrants to make asylum appointments at the border. The app will now allow people living in the U.S. to say they want to self deport.
Almost immediately after President Donald Trump took office, the CBP One app stopped allowing migrants to apply for asylum. Now, the overhauled app — renamed CBP Home — allows people living in the United States illegally to declare that they want to leave voluntarily.
Trump’s administration has been promoting the idea of “self deportations” as a low-cost way to achieve their mass deportation goals.
In a social media post, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the revamped app gives people the option to leave the “so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future.”
“If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return,” Noem said.
