Kristi Noem flipped the script on illegal aliens with one move that has Democrats fuming

For four long years, the Biden Department of Homeland Security sat on its hands as millions of unvetted illegal aliens, including many on terror watch lists, poured across America’s borders.

But thankfully the agency is taking a new approach under new leadership.

And now Kristi Noem flipped the script on illegal aliens with one move that has Democrats fuming.

Noem turns the tables

As President Donald Trump’s first term in office was coming to a close in October 2020, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) launched the CBP One mobile app for the express purpose of helping commercial trucking companies schedule cargo inspections at America’s ports of entry, thereby making the process smoother for everyone involved.

But roughly two years into the national nightmare that was President Joe Biden’s term in office, the Biden regime got ahold of the CBP One app, expanding its functionality to offer illegal aliens what is essentially a full concierge service for entering the U.S. illegally.

On the app, illegal aliens could make asylum claims, and schedule a time for them to enter the country illegally and be released without their asylum claim being fully vetted on the pinky promise they’d eventually return for a hearing – spoiler alert: few ever did return.

Fortunately, once President Trump took office, he quickly shut down the app.

But considering the fact that untold sums of taxpayer dollars have already been spent building out the app, America might as well get its money’s worth one way or the other.

As such, the Trump Department of Homeland Security (DHS) recently announced that the CBP One app has been repurposed as the CBP Home app.

Now, rather than allowing illegal aliens to make reservations for illegally entering the U.S., the app will allow illegal aliens already in the country to self-deport back to their home countries, or risk being deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

“The Biden Administration exploited the CBP One App to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said. “With the launching of the CBP Home App, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system.”

The choice is clear

According to a report from CBS News, prior to Trump taking office, 166 million illegal aliens attempted to make asylum claims via the formerly-named CBP One app.

But the overwhelming majority of those claims, including the overwhelming majority the Biden regime let into the country, were not based in reality.

Even during the Biden regime’s frantic effort to flood the nation with as many illegal aliens as possible, federal immigration judges rejected over 90% of asylum claims.

That was all part of the plan, though – illegal aliens, and the Biden regime, knew full well that they could simply make phony asylum claims and still be allowed to stay in the country without ever showing up for a hearing.

But that’s no longer the case.

“The CBP Home App gives aliens the option to leave now and self-deport, so they may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream,” Noem added. “If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return.”

Some have speculated that early evidence points to a growing number of self-departions since Trump won the 2024 Presidential election back in November.

With their options now being to either self-deport and potentially return to the country legally at a later date, or stay and risk being deported by ICE while losing the opportunity to ever come back, it would seem that more illegal aliens will take the opportunity to return to their home countries on their own accord.

But if not, the data they provided the CBP One app to get into the country illegally could very well be a digital footprint that will allow authorities to find them sooner rather than later.