by Frank Holmes, reporter
President Donald Trump is not just securing the border, cracking down on illegal immigration, and establishing the safety of Americans first, he’s done it with a delicious twist of irony: He’s used the liberals’ own tools against them.
In President Trump’s most recent border breakthrough, he shoved a program the Left created for mass amnesty back down their throats.
The Biden-Harris administration pulled out all the stops to fundamentally transform America through illegal immigration.
They cut barbed wire fences erected by Texas. They re-instituted catch-and-release. They created new unconstitutional programs to suddenly pronounce illegal aliens “legal residents” protected by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.
As if that weren’t enough, the Biden-Harris puppeteers instituted their own cell phone application—called “CBP One”—that let illegal immigrants from around the world conveniently schedule an appointment with a rubber-stamp official who would admit the “asylum seekers” to the United States en masse.
The CBP One app allowed an estimated 1,500 illegal aliens to enter the U.S. through every port of entry every single day.
Altogether, the border-opening app admitted nearly one million people—936,500 inadmissible aliens from every corner of the Earth—into the United States in barely two years... and Biden wasn’t done wrecking the country when he left his replica of the Oval Office.
Another 270,000 illegals are cooling their heels in Mexico right now, waiting to line up for appointments they scheduled back when Biden was president, according to CBS News.
“The true purpose for the app was not to ensure the welfare of the migrants, many of who still had to travel through Central America and Mexico to reach the southern border. Rather it was to illegally expand migration into the U.S. as much as possible while avoiding the bad optics of chaos at the borders,” wrote Ira Mehlman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR.
Not only did it let illegals pour out onto U.S. streets, but it enabled wholesale immigration fruad. In barely eight months—between January 12 and August 18 of 2023—a whopping 52,992 aliens set up at least 10 unique registrations apiece. Some illegals, especially from Russia and Armenia, created hundreds of new profiles, which scheduled appointments with Biden officials.
Three, apparently separate people in Armenia each created exactly 466 profiles.
The top 10 abusers of the app—seven from Armenia and three from Russia—created a total of 3,737 registrations on the Democrats’ open borders app, according to a DHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report released last August 19.
Not only did President Trump stop all that, he reversed it in three brilliant moves.
First, the 47th president revoked the legal” status that Biden-Harris administration’s illegally conferred on the app’s users. That makes them eligible for deportation.
Second, he took away the financial incentive for illegals to enter the U.S. and reversed it: He recently declared he will slap illegal aliens who refuse to leave the country with a fine of almost $1,000 a day (specifically, $998 a day, every day, including weekends and holidays).
Say goodbye to your ill-gotten gain!
But in his most biting step, President Trump announced he would use information the illegals submitted through the CBP One app to begin deporting them, one by one, unless they schedule a new appointment to deport themselves with the newly renamed CBP Home app.
“People in our country illegally can self-deport the easy way, or get deported the hard way—and that’s not pleasant,” announced President Trump in an online video last month.
DING DONG DITCH: President Trump is urging illegal immigrants to "self-deport the easy way, or get deported the hard way" as his administration launches the CBP Home app, replacing the Biden-era one after it was "exploited" under the previous administration. pic.twitter.com/HkjJcqksLA
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 18, 2025
“Affected aliens are urged to voluntarily self-deport using the CBP Home App. Those who refuse will be found, removed, and permanently barred from reentry,” a DHS spokesperson told the New York Post.
“Self-deportation is the safest option for illegal aliens, while preserving law enforcement resources. Not only is it safer, but it also saves U.S. taxpayer dollars and valuable Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) resources to focus on dangerous criminal aliens,” said a message from the Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
INCREDIBLE. The Trump administration repurposed the CBP one app into a self deportation tool for criminal illegal aliens.
Biden exploited the app to allow over 1 million illegals to invade our country.
Trump is using it to have them deport themselves. pic.twitter.com/BRWRkrgJl2
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) March 10, 2025
He has held out the hope that illegals who leave on their own may be able to apply legally and return to his booming economy—but if DHS has to come get them, they will be barred for life.
And he’s willing to imprison illegals, unlike the Biden administration.
President Trump has used every tool the Left weaponized in its open borders crusade to reverse their malicious activities, restore order, and protect Americans from narcoterrorists and sexual predators—and he managed to shove it back in their face in the process.