Illegal migrants self-deporting as Trump’s return spurs dramatic policy shift

Just the News ^ | January 21, 2025 11:12pm Updated: January 21, 2025 11:22pm | Ben Whedon

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Even before President Donald Trump returned to office, illegal aliens were voluntarily departing the U.S. But his inauguration and the subsequent flurry of executive orders appear to have led more to make their way out of the country.

“You know, I think President Trump is doing it a lot with rhetoric and now with the executive orders trying to get things done, and people are now self deporting,” National Border Patrol Council Vice President Art Del Cueto said Tuesday on the “Just the News, No Noise” television show. 

“It started a couple weeks ago,” he also said. “They didn't wait till now. It started a couple weeks ago where they were saying, 'Hey, look, we know the new sheriff is in town. Let's pack up and leave Dodge.' I guess you would say.”

Trump on Monday signed a slew of executive orders to secure the border and shut down the CBP One app, which the Biden Department of Homeland Security had used to process hundreds of thousands of aliens. Video footage showed hundreds of would-be entrants to the country crying at the border in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, after learning that their appointments had been canceled. One woman in particular went viral as footage showed her wailing in disappointment at the news.

Apart from shutting down the app, Trump issued an order terminating so-called “birth tourism” wherein foreigners have children within the U.S. interior to secure citizenship status. The practice presented hurdles for deporting illegal aliens who were the parents of so-called “anchor babies.” He additionally reinstated his “Remain in Mexico” policy requiring that would-be asylum seekers stay in that country while awaiting their immigration court date.

Trump has also promised mass deportations of illegal aliens and tapped former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan...

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Good. I hope this means II can go back to the mall
And shop in peace hearing them yack at the top of their lungs in their native tongues ….

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I’m gonna address the elephant in the room nobody seems to see. Is the msm trying to pass the B.S. people are just walking or busing or flying into Mexico w/o Mexican authorities stopping or questioning them?
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They could just be walking or driving across the border. There are many points of entry where there is a lot of traffic in both directions. My guess the ones “self” deporting are Mexicans and they just want to get out of town until the heat dies down. If Mexicans they should have no problem entering Mexico.