Tens of thousands of illegal aliens have self-deported since the Trump administration began encouraging illegal aliens to return to their nations of origin and repurposed an app used by the Biden administration to streamline mass migration into the United States, a new report says.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials, Breitbart News reports, say that there have been tens of thousands of illegal alien self-deportations since the Trump administration overhauled the Customs and Border Patrol One app.

The platform was originally used by migrants to remotely schedule asylum application interviews before the Trump administration revamped it, now allowing illegal aliens to submit their intent to depart from the United States, giving officials an estimate on the number of illegal aliens leaving the country by their own accord.

Encouraging self-deportations, immigration experts tell The Daily Wire, is an essential part of any campaign to crack down on illegal immigration and decrease the number of illegal aliens in the United States, which the Federation for American Immigration Reform estimated at 18.6 million as of early 2025.

Federation for American Immigration Reform

“As of 2025, American population growth comes almost entirely from unsustainably high levels of immigration, both legal and illegal,” the organization charged.

The CBP Home app is part of a broader effort to get illegal aliens to voluntarily leave the United States, with the administration now offering illegal aliens $1,000 to self-deport and threatening to fine them nearly $1,000 per day they refuse to leave the country

The DHS also launched an advertising campaign encouraging illegal aliens to leave the country. The ad, which showcased violent criminal illegals captured by ICE like a previously deported MS-13 murder suspect caught at Colony Ridge, featured DHS Secretary Kristi Noem as she told illegal aliens to “do what’s right: leave now.”

ICE also published a guide to self deportation on its site, telling illegal aliens “you do not need to turn yourself in to an ICE office if you intend to self-deport. You may simply leave the country.”

“If you’re illegally present in the U.S., you can leave at any time. You don’t have to wait for ICE officials to find, arrest, detain and remove you. You can plan and organize your affairs,” the government agency explains. “If ICE officials arrest you, there’s no going back — you may not have time to get your affairs in order, gather your belongings, or even say goodbye to the people you care about.”

“Removal comes with other consequences, too, including bars to reentry. Bars to reentry are penalties for violating U.S. immigration law,” the law enforcement agency says under a sub-head that reads “If You Don’t Self-Deport.”

“Being barred from reentry means the U.S. government won’t let you come back into the U.S. — even for a short visit.”

Longtime Democratic Strategist James Carville let loose on his own party in a scathing op-ed, calling it “constipated,” “leaderless,” and “a cracked-out clown car” that was barreling down the road toward a “civilized civil war.”

Carville has often taken Democrats to task in recent years – particularly with regard to their obsession with “wokeness” — and his column in Monday’s edition of The New York Times was no exception.

“Our party is headed for a civilized civil war. It’s vital that we have it, and even more vital that we delay it,” Carville teased the column in an X post, acknowledging that there had to be some changes made within his party but calling on the people to try to keep it together at least until after the 2026 midterms.

Our party is headed for a civilized civil war. It’s vital that we have it, and even more vital that we delay it. My latest in @nytimes https://t.co/O56YhvtHKY

— James Carville (@JamesCarville) July 21, 2025

“Constipated. Leaderless. Confused. A cracked-out clown car. Divided. These are the words I hear my fellow Democrats using to describe our party as of late. The truth is they’re not wrong: The Democratic Party is in shambles,” Carville wrote.

Carville went on to lay out the divisions made obvious by the rise of Democratic socialists in places like New York City — Queens councilman turned Democratic Mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani, for example — and argued that the party would have to face a reckoning of sorts. It needed to happen, he conceded, but said that it should wait until after the 2026 midterm elections.

The solution, Carville claimed, would come in the form of a “savior” — one candidate who could bring about a New Democratic Party that brought both sides together. His assessment was that such “saviors” had arisen before in former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton.

“The Democratic Party is steamrolling toward a civilized civil war. It’s necessary to have it. It’s even more necessary to delay it. The only thing that can save us now is an actual savior, because a new party can be delivered only by a person — see Barack Obama in 2008 and Bill Clinton in 1992,” he said. “No matter how many podcasts or influencer streams our candidates go on, our new leader won’t arrive until the day after the midterms in November 2026, which marks the unofficial-yet-official beginning of the 2028 presidential primary contest. No new party or candidate has a chance for a breakthrough until that day.”

Whether or not Carville’s message will be well-received by Democrats remains to be seen. If former President Joe Biden’s embattled son Hunter is any indication, the likelihood is that it won’t.

“James Carville hasn’t won a race in 40 f***ing years,” the younger Biden said during a recent interview, sharply criticizing any Democrat who’d conceded that it was time for Joe Biden to bow out. “[David Axelrod] had one success in his political life and that was Barack Obama and that was because of Barack Obama.”