Thousands leave country voluntarily amid Trump self-deport push, DHS says

FIRST ON FOX: Thousands of illegal immigrants facing imaginable involuntary removal from the United States person alternatively opted to self-deport done an app provided by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

The fig of immigrants who person opted to self-deport implicit the past period utilizing the CBP Home app is implicit 5,000, according to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) information shared with Fox News Digital.

The self-deportations travel arsenic the Trump medication has ramped up a messaging run aimed astatine encouraging amerciable immigrants to permission the state voluntarily, astir precocious releasing a flyer addressed to "illegal aliens" that threatens caller fines for those who take to stay successful the U.S. contempt a deportation order.

"Self-deportation is safe," the flyer reads. "Leave connected your ain presumption by picking your departure flight."

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Over 5,000 amerciable immigrants person opted to permission the state voluntarily since March 10. (Getty Images)

The flyer warns that the medication plans to commencement fining amerciable migrants who person received a last bid of removal $998 per time if they proceed to enactment successful the country, portion fines of $1,000-$5,000 could beryllium fixed to those who failed to self-deport aft claiming they would.

America First Legal Senior Counsel James Rogers argued that the self-deportation propulsion is moving due to the fact that of the "credible menace of enforcement."

"Our nation’s migration laws enforce terrible penalties connected aliens who are illegally successful the country. The lone crushed determination is simply a ample colonisation of amerciable immigrants residing successful the United States is due to the fact that anterior administrations person failed to enforce these laws passed by Congress," Rogers said. "Everyone knows this, including the aliens who person been illegally surviving here. The existent inclination of amerciable aliens self-deporting proves that adjacent conscionable the credible menace of enforcement tin beryllium capable to get galore amerciable immigrants to comply with our laws and permission the country."

Meanwhile, the flyer boasts of respective benefits for those who opt to self-deport, including the quality to support the wealth they earned portion successful the U.S., aboriginal opportunities for legal immigration, and imaginable fiscal assistance oregon flights retired of the state for those who cannot spend it.

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President Donald Trump has encouraged amerciable immigrants to self-deport, claiming it is the safest mode to permission the country. (Evan Vucci/AP)

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"Illegal aliens should usage the CBP Home app to self-deport and permission the state now. If they don’t, they volition look the consequences," Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Tuesday. "This includes a good of $998 per time for each time that the amerciable alien overstayed their last deportation order."

President Donald Trump himself has joined the messaging campaign, releasing a video past period that encouraged amerciable migrants to usage the CBP Home app to self-deport.

"Leave present and self-deport voluntarily. If they do, they could perchance person the accidental to instrumentality legally astatine immoderate constituent successful the future," Trump said successful the video, adding that those who bash not self-deport "will beryllium found, they volition beryllium deported, and they volition ne'er beryllium admitted again to the United States."

"Using the CBP location app to permission the United States voluntarily is the safest enactment for amerciable aliens," Trump added, noting that self-deportation volition besides escaped up captious instrumentality enforcement resources that are amended spent focusing connected transgression aliens.

Venezuelan migrants locomotion pursuing their accomplishment connected a formation aft being deported from the United States, successful Caracas, Venezuela, March 24, 2025.  (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

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Rogers argued amerciable immigrants would beryllium omniscient to travel Trump’s advice.

"They would beryllium omniscient to bash so, due to the fact that leaving connected their ain volition beryllium acold amended for them than the galore penalties they volition look if they proceed to stay present successful usurpation of our nation’s laws, present that we person an medication consenting to enforce the law," Rogers said.