President Donald Trump is using social media to urge illegal immigrants to self-deport in a new online campaign.
The Trump administration launched the CBP Home app last week, which allows illegal immigrants in the United States to notify the government that they are self-deporting. The White House released videos on YouTube, Instagram, X, and Facebook on Tuesday morning featuring the president promoting the CBP Home app and imploring illegal immigrants to use it to leave the country.
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????ILLEGAL ALIENS: Download the CBP Home App – Now Available on All App Stores
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) March 18, 2025
Do it the easy way, or get deported the hard way. pic.twitter.com/Kb3GgAl7it
Trump characterized the app as the “safest option for illegal aliens, our law enforcement, it also saves the US taxpayer dollar and valuable CBP and ICE resources.” He added that “all of those resources are necessary to focus on dangerous criminal aliens and that’s what we’re focused on.”
He said illegal immigrants who use the app to self-deport would have the ability to return, but those who do not self-deport would be unable to return to the U.S.
“Today, do it right and come back into our country. Do it wrong and you’ll never be back again,” Trump said.
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The videos came as the Trump administration’s deportation efforts have dominated headlines, including the president’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 over the weekend on the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. A federal judge quickly paused the order after it was issued.
Despite the court order, the Trump administration shipped two planes full of alleged Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador for detention. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday the flights did not violate the court’s ruling because the “aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory” by the time the order was issued.