The Department of Homeland Security is intensifying its efforts to encourage immigrants without legal status to self-deport using a mobile app and an extensive ad campaign. Under the Trump administration, the CBP One app has been relaunched as the CBP Home app with a self-deportation reporting feature. Additionally, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has starred in ads urging undocumented immigrants to leave the country or face deportation. The agency is spending $200 million on these efforts and has aired the ads on TV stations across several states, as well as internationally.
Immigration experts and advocates have criticized the self-deportation message, highlighting the complexities and consequences of voluntary removal, such as the potential inability to legally return to the U.S. The termination of legal immigration programs and the new enforcement tactics under Trump further complicate the situation, making immigrants vulnerable to self-deportation as a means of bypassing the challenges of finding and removing those lacking legal status.
The ad campaign and app are seen as tools to track self-deportations, which are difficult to quantify accurately. While voluntary departures and returns can be measured, comprehensive data on immigrants choosing to leave the country outside of formal removal proceedings is lacking. Overall, the push for self-deportation could have significant political, moral, and economic costs, with concerns raised about the impact on individuals’ ability to contest removal in immigration court and potential barriers to re-entry into the U.S.
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