Posted on Tuesday, March 18, 2025
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The Biden administration’s CBP One app facilitated the “mass illegal entry” of illegal immigrants, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Monday.
“It was like a fast pass at Disneyland,” Leavitt told The Daily Signal at a White House press briefing.
The Trump administration, however, repurposed the app to make it easier for illegal immigrants to self-deport. The CBP Home app provides illegal immigrants with a way to report their planned self-deportation to the Department of Homeland Security.
If illegal immigrants don’t self-deport, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has warned, “we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return.”
Leavitt said the droves of illegal immigrants entering the United States unencumbered by the law has ended.
“That’s not happening under this administration,” Leavitt said. “We are encouraging illegal immigrants to actively self-deport, to maybe save themselves from being in one of these fun videos.”
On Monday morning, the White House posted a video of illegal immigrants who belong to the terrorist criminal organization Tren de Aragua being put on planes for extradition.
The video was posted amid controversy about the deportation of the violent criminal aliens.
“I think the White House and our entire government clearly is leaning into the message of this president, and we are unafraid to double down and to take responsibility and ownership of the serious decisions that are being made,” Leavitt said at the briefing.
“The president was elected with an overwhelming mandate to launch the largest mass deportation campaign in American history,” she continued, “and that’s exactly what he is doing.”
Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller was reported to have secretly orchestrated the Venezuelan gang members’ flights to El Salvador to get them out of the country before a left-wing judge ruled against the deportations, Axios reported.
U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg—a 2011 appointee of then-President Barack Obama—issued an order intended to block the president from deporting about 250 reputed Tren de Aragua gang members under the Alien Enemies Act of 1789.
But the flights were already over international waters, so the ruling didn’t matter, the Trump administration aide said, according to Axios.
Virginia Allen contributed to this report.
Reprinted with permission from The Daily Signal by Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell.
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