President Donald Trump returned to the White House with a clear mandate to address the open-border policies of his predecessor.
Part of Trump’s second-term agenda involves incentivizing undocumented immigrants to voluntarily leave the U.S.
One Ecuadorian native who has served as deputy communications director for U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently announced that he had self-deported to Colombia.
Per Breitbart, Diego de la Vega moved to America as a child but admittedly had no desire to assimilate:
De la Vega wanted to work on Capitol Hill. Thankfully, only legal citizens are allowed to work in national politics, which seems like a pretty smart law to me, because here is the bottom line about this DACA enrollee… See if you can spot the problem with Mr. Amazing Diego…
“In my late 20s, I began to seriously consider how precarious my future in the U.S. was,” de la Vega said. “I thought about what would happen if I just left, if I went to Latin America, if I embraced my identity as a Latino instead of trying to fit the image of a picture-perfect immigrant.”
He added, “Not being able to leave the U.S. or visit my country was hard.”
And there you go…
De la Vega had no desire to become an American. Oh, he wanted citizenship, but that’s something very different from wanting to become an American. He lives here 23 of his 31 years and still refers to Colombia as “my country,” still wants to embrace his “identity as a Latino instead of trying to fit the image of a picture-perfect immigrant.”
No normal person wants immigrants like this guy living in our country: people who demean America while flying the flag of a foreign country. When my wife and her family came here (legally) from Mexico, they desperately wanted to become Americans — to learn the language, embrace our ideals and customs, and appreciate the prosperity. My wife is proud of her Mexican heritage, and in our beautiful melting pot she has held on to the traditions she loves. But if you ask what her country is, she will proudly say “America.”
Trump’s efforts to promote self-deportation have been obvious thus far in his current term:
Did you know that your tax dollars gave migrant’s free cell phones.
Never fear because now the Trump administration is using the app on those phones to help migrants self-deport pic.twitter.com/eZuTDU8M8e— Jason Elliott (@MrJayRN) March 11, 2025
“I decided to deport myself before Donald Trump does.”
Is anyone sad for this man?
Is anyone upset at all?
— AmericanPapaBear (@AmericaPapaBear) November 25, 2024
Illegals are now self deporting following Trump’s deportation initiatives and border crackdown.
Bye Bye!
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— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 27, 2025
Fox News reported on the latest move by the Trump administration:
The Department of Homeland Security is announcing the CBP Home app — which will launch with a self-deportation reporting feature for those in the country illegally.
It replaces the CBP One app, which was expanded by the Biden administration to allow migrants to schedule appointments at ports of entry to be paroled into the U.S. Hundreds of thousands were paroled into the U.S. as a result. The Trump administration has ended the ability to use the app for that purpose.
All CBP One apps will update to the new CBP Home app.
“The Biden Administration exploited the CBP One App to allow more than 1 million aliens to illegally enter the United States. With the launching of the CBP Home App, we are restoring integrity to our immigration system,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.
Here’s some additional commentary about the revised CBP One app:
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