DHS highlights self-deportation feature for migrants in new app

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has launched a new app where migrants can indicate they plan to “self-deport.”

The CBP Home app appears to replace the Biden-era CBP One app, where migrants could make appointments at a port of entry to seek asylum.

The CBP Home app instead has features for migrants to indicate they plan to leave the country, including a “submit intent to depart” option.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement that the Biden administration had “exploited” the CBP One app.

“With the launching of the CBP Home app, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system,” she said in the statement.

“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. If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return.”

The app comes shortly after the Trump administration separately demanded that migrants in the country illegally must register with the government and submit to fingerprinting.

The government is largely unaware of where the nation’s estimated more than 11 million people illegally in the country live, and the threat of deportation is likely to make most migrants hesitant to register.

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