Homeland Security overhauls its asylum phone app. Now it's for 'self-deportation'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

47% : "The app provides illegal aliens in the United States with a straightforward way to declare their intent to voluntarily depart, offering them the chance to leave before facing harsher consequences," Pete Flores, the acting commissioner for U.S Customs and Border Protection, said in a statement.
39% : But earlier mass crackdowns on illegal immigration -- most famously a quasi-military operation in the mid-1950s that Trump has repeatedly praised -- also drove many immigrants who were in the U.S. legally to leave.
30% : Moments after Trump took office, the earlier version of the app, CBP One, stopped allowing migrants to apply for asylum, and tens of thousands of border appointments were canceled.

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