self-deport

English

Etymology

From self- +‎ deport.

Verb

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".
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