DHS Touts CBP Home Self‑Deportation App, Claims 2.2 Million Voluntary Exits

The Department of Homeland Security told Fox News that traffic to its website jumped 68.49% in 2025, to 102 million pageviews and 67 million unique visitors, and highlighted strong interest in a page describing self‑deportation through its CBP Home mobile app. Launched in March 2025 under President Trump’s second term, the app lets people in the U.S. illegally apply for voluntary departure, with DHS offering a $1,000 stipend plus free flights and travel assistance to those who leave, including a heavily promoted Cyber Monday 'deal.' DHS and Secretary Kristi Noem now claim that in Trump’s first year back in office nearly 3 million 'illegal aliens' exited the U.S., including an estimated 2.2 million self‑deportations and more than 675,000 deportations, and say Border Patrol apprehensions over the past year were the lowest in the agency’s history. The department is also preparing a redesigned website and has added a 'Worst of the Worst' page naming migrants it labels rapists, murderers and child predators to showcase arrests. The figures and framing are part of a broader administration effort to argue the border is 'the most secure in history' and to normalize self‑deportation as a core enforcement tool, though the underlying methodology for its exit estimates is not detailed in this piece.