Trump administration transforms mobile app for migrants into self-deportation tool

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The Trump administration has changed a mobile app, originally created to help with asylum appointments, into a tool for undocumented migrants to voluntarily leave the United States.


The app, now called CBP Home, will allow migrants to submit an “intent to depart” form, giving them the opportunity to leave the country without facing “harsher consequences.”


According to BBC News, the U.S. government is encouraging undocumented migrants to voluntarily depart the country instead of being arrested and deported.

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