The administration of President Donald Trump plans to deport more than 900,000 migrants who entered the country at official southern border entry points after confirming appointments through the CBP One app.
The feds are now informing those who entered during the administration of President Joe Biden via the app that their parole status is being terminated, CBS News reported. They can use the same app to self-deport or face forced deportation and permanent expulsion from the country.
“If you do not depart the United States immediately, you will be subject to potential law enforcement actions that will result in your removal from the United States — unless you have otherwise obtained a lawful basis to remain here,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a message CBS News reported.
The move is the latest salvo in the Trump Administration’s promise to fix the nation’s “broken” immigration system. The exact number of people who entered the country illegally during Biden’s four years as commander-in-chief depends on the source but has been estimated to be roughly 10 million.
Last month, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced that the DHS launched a self-deportation reporting feature on the CBP Home app that those living in the country illegally should use to submit their intent to leave. The agency said the self-deportation option is part of a $200 million international and domestic ad campaign to encourage those in the country illegally to “Stay Out and Leave Now.”
“The Biden Administration exploited the CBP One app to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States,” Noem said in a statement. “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.”
Additionally, the Department of Government Efficiency, headed by entrepreneur Elon Musk, will use Social Security Administration data “to examine claims that immigrants are abusing the system,” CBS News reported.
Last month, DHS also said that as of March 25, it was “terminating the categorical parole programs for inadmissible aliens from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela and their immediate family members … that DHS announced in 2022 and 2023,” according to a notice in the Federal Register. The agency said the move was consistent with Executive Order 14165 that Trump issued on Jan. 20.
The federal agency said that “approximately 532,000 inadmissible aliens were granted advance authorization to travel to the United States and receive consideration for parole into the United States.”
While moving to deport those in the country without authorization has detractors, mainly among Democrats, several Republicans push the administration to take such an action.
In a Jan. 22 letter to Noem, before the U.S. Senate confirmed her to her post, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, on behalf of attorneys general from 17 other states, sent a letter asking the federal government to review the countries granted “temporary protected status,” which Biden extended shortly before leaving office. The request included some countries, such as Honduras, that have had the designation for decades.
“TPS beneficiaries represent over 1 million immigrants residing in the States who are otherwise without legal status,” the letter read.
“Converting TPS into a license for long-term residency frustrates congressional aims and only increases the financial and governmental strain on States,” it added. “And given the likelihood of legal challenges by activist lawyers and organizations, delaying review of TPS designations only risks tying up executive action in the future.”
