In March of 2025 the Trump administration launched the CBP Home app, a rework of the Biden Administration’s CBP One app. Using the CBP Home app [Apple/Google] as part of “Project Homecoming,” illegal aliens can submit themselves for voluntary deportation, provide all the necessary documents to the US government, request help receiving travel documents, apply for a $1,000 self-deportation payment, and receive a complimentary plane ticket to their home country.
In other words, the US government is making leaving the United States as easy as it once was to illegally enter the United States, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) reports that its app has been a wild success. These reports are confirmed up by the recent 2.2 million person drop in the foreign-born population of the United States.
America’s Foreign Born Population In Decline, Says the CIS: 2. 2 Million Have “Self-Deported”
By: Mike Adams
In deploying this technology and using it successfully, the administration has put to rest the question often posed in opposition to a broader program of Remigration: “how will we move all these people?” The answer is with technology!
The CBP Home app significantly reduces the number of person-to-person interactions required by DHS officials and illegal immigrants and therefore significantly reduces personnel and administrative costs. The estimated $4,500 cost per voluntary deportation pales in comparison to the $17,121 it costs in enforcement to deport someone. More significantly though, it moves people out of the United States at a much faster pace than if every illegal alien were processed and deported at the street level.
All of this suggests that the CBP Home-style system for moving people out of the United States could be expanded to cover our proposed program of voluntary remigration for American citizens of immigrant descent who no longer wish to live in the United States. The services of the app could be expanded to accommodate this new mission and facilitate remigration at scale and at speed without significantly increasing American bureaucratic bloat. Expanding technology such as CBP Home is more important than ever as polling cited by White Papers has shown just how many people would like to remigrate themselves if given the opportunity.
White Papers has long cited the stat that 45% of people of color, or about 72 million people, want to depart the United States, according to polling by Monmouth University.
Those Who Want to Go: A More Expansive Great Repatriation
Other polling shows 26% of Asians in the United States would like to relocate to their ancestral homelands, or roughly 6.5 million people. These are significant numbers, but even more recent polling has reinforced the sincere desire for voluntary remigration. One recent poll of Hispanics in the United States conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation shows that 37% of Hispanics born abroad are considering leaving the United States—a figure that represents some 8 million individuals who would depart.
The most significant polling recently released was a February 2025 poll conducted by Harris Polling showing that 40% of Americans have considered moving abroad. Within this 40%, a majority of Hispanic Americans (61%) and majority of African Americans (57%) have considered moving abroad. In individual terms these figures represent roughly 67 million people who desire to move abroad. It is beyond a doubt that huge shares of recent immigrants and the descendants of immigrants who feel out of place in the United States wish to make new lives elsewhere but lack the resources to do so.
There is also the reality that so many Americans are dissatisfied with diversity. Americans have rapidly become unhappy living in a country defined by liberal multiculturalism and demographic change. Between September of 2019 and September of 2024, the number of Americans who view diversity as a threat to American culture more than tripled from 11% to 33%. This figure rises to 35% among Whites and 43% among non-college educated Whites. Another poll conducted by Gallup in July of 2024 shows that 55% of Americans want all immigration (including legal immigration) to decrease substantially. Furthermore, an Ipsos poll released one day before Trump’s 2025 inauguration found that 66% of Americans support deporting all people who are in the country illegally. This is a 12-point increase from a September 2024 Ipsos poll which found that 54% of Americans support mass deportations. It is also a 4% increase from a June 2024 poll which showed 62% of Americans, including 67% of White Americans and 53% of Hispanic Americans, support mass deportations.
There is unquestionably a national conversation to be had about voluntary remigration for the descendants of recent immigrants. So how is it done? The answer is to embrace technology.
A “CBP Remigration App” could do everything CBP Home is currently doing and much more. A “CBP Remigration App” could:
- Notify the government as to who wants to relocate.
- Facilitate the acquisition of a passport.
- Book plane tickets and other transit.
- Connect individuals with relocation services in the private sector (exporting household goods etc).
- Pay out the White Papers suggested $72,000 per individual repatriation payment once the conditions have been met.
- Allow individuals relocating abroad to facilitate the acquisition of a visa or dual citizenship for the country they wish to relocate to. Many countries such as Japan, Korea, India, and Pakistan have visas for their diaspora while others such as Mexico and Arab states make the acquisition of citizenship easy based on the descent of the individual.
Diaspora Cards And Remigration
By Alex C.
Images of people lining up at offices in the cold or rain to move abroad or begging the state to open the border or anything that mirrors the Soviet Union are something nationalists should work hard to dismiss. Those who wish to voluntarily remigrate abroad can do it on their smartphone from the comfort of their couch, make the arrangements on their own schedule, and receive government, private sector, and nonprofit assistance without the bureaucratic nightmare most Americans associate with government.
The private sector is also making serious technological advancements that could assist in the remigration process. AI-powered tools have been developed and tested that can evaluate properties and determine their listing value. Other companies, such as this one, take prospective expats abroad to tour cities they could relocate to and then assist in facilitating the move. In other instances, expat organizations such as the African-American Association of Ghana offer advice on relocating to the country and continent. All of these non-state resources could be leveraged in a remigration scenario and enhanced through the use of modern technology.
The only thing standing between Americans and the remigration of tens of millions of people who don’t want to live in this country is a straw man. Many Americans openly express their desire for ordered, peaceful, and structured remigration. Policymakers should catch up to public opinion.