self-deport

From self- +‎ deport.

self-deport (third-person singular simple present self-deports, present participle self-deporting, simple past and past participle self-deported)

1. (intransitive) To evict oneself, especially from a country.
   • 2020, Alan E. Sparks, Into the Carpathians:

     In total, at least 620,000 “Ukrainians” self-deported or were deported from Poland and at least 13,000 self-deported from Czechoslovakia to Ukraine.

   • 2025 March 10, “Trump administration relaunches CBP One asylum app for ‘self-deportation’”, in Al Jazeera‎^[1]:

     “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 said.

   • 2025 March 10, Bernd Debusmann Jr, “US unveils new app for 'self-deportations'”, in BBC‎^[2]:

     In a statement, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that by self-deporting through the app, migrants "may still have the opportunity to return legally in the future and live the American dream".

   • 2025 May 19, “Project Homecoming Charter Flight Brings Self-Deporters to Honduras, Colombia”, in Department of Homeland Security‎^[3]:

     This was a voluntary charter flight, not an ICE enforcement operation. All participants were offered the same benefits as any illegal alien who self-deports using the CBP Home App. They received travel assistance, a $1,000 stipend, and preserved the possibility they could one day return to the United States legally.

   • 2025 June 24, Juliana Kim, “Purple Heart Army veteran self-deports after nearly 50 years in the U.S.”, in NPR‎^[4]:

     On Monday, Park, a green-card holder, self-deported to South Korea.

   • 2025 August 7, Gabriel San Román, “After 28 years, O.C. man self-deports to Tijuana in search of a better life”, in Daily Pilot‎^[5], archived from the original on 9 August 2025:

     For Arturo, the decision to self-deport to Mexico came crashing one morning.

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