White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt encouraged illegal aliens to leave the United States now or face “much harder consequences” during Tuesday’s press briefing.
Leavitt’s warning came as she showcased the Trump administration’s revised mobile application encouraging illegal aliens to self-deport back to their countries of origin. The restructured app, called the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Home app, allows illegal aliens to “submit intent to depart” and “verify departure” from the United States.
“The CBP Home app strengthens our mission to secure the border and provides illegal aliens with a straightforward way to leave now before facing much harder consequences later,” Leavitt said during the briefing.
“CBP launched an enhanced home mobile app with a new feature: the intent to depart, which offers unlawfully present aliens, or those aliens whose parole has been revoked, an orderly and defined process to notify the U.S. government to depart the country,” Leavitt added while showing a graphic of the new app.
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The CBP Home App replaces the Biden administration’s CBP One app, which allowed migrants to remotely schedule parole interviews at ports of entry along the border. The program, Trump officials say, was used to enable more than one million foreign nationals into the interior of the country. The app will update on the phones of migrants who downloaded it and used it to gain access to the country.
“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 on Monday after the repurposed app was announced.
That figure is believed to include roughly a quarter million foreign nationals who would have otherwise been deemed inadmissible aliens, but were instead allowed to enter the United States.
“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,” the DHS Secretary added. “If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return.”
The new application from the Trump administration comes as Trump’s DHS has carried out a series of ongoing deportation raids across the country. One recent week-long operation by Immigration and Customs Enforcement resulted in the arrest of more than 600 illegal aliens, including 543 with criminal records, in the Houston area.
