The Trump administration has reportedly repurposed a mobile application that the Biden administration used as a gateway for migrants to enter the United States and will now use the platform to encourage illegal aliens to self-deport back to their home countries.
Formerly called the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) One app, the app allowed hundreds of thousands of migrants to remotely schedule appointments at points of entry, allowing them to be paroled into the country’s interior during the Biden administration.
Now, under President Donald Trump, the app will be updated to “CBP Home” and will allow migrants to “submit intent to depart” and “verify departure” from the United States. The app will automatically update on the devices that had installed Biden’s version of the platform, allowing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to track them for removal.
“The Biden Administration exploited the CBP One App to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said. “With the launching of the CBP Home App, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system.”
“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,” Noem added. “If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return.”
Trump shut down the Biden administration’s version of the app on his first day in office while moving to freeze parole applications and allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement to cancel the parole statuses of migrants.
The new CBP Home app comes as the Trump administration has launched a series of efforts to deter would-be border crossers and deport illegal aliens currently present in the United States.
Noem announced “a nationwide and international multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning illegal aliens to leave our country NOW or face deportation with the inability to return to the US” last month.
“If you are considering entering America illegally, don’t even think about it. Let me be clear. If you come to our country and you break our laws, we will hunt you down,” the DHS secretary said.
The Trump administration has also deported 11,00o illegal aliens in the first 18 days of his second term, while the Department of Defense is working to prepare the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base to house tens of thousands of criminal illegal alien detainees.
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