Accidental Self-Deportation

Updated: 7-26-2025

Accidental Self-Deportation

This incident recently reported in the news was about an illegal (undocumented) alien migrant working as a ride-share driver in the San Diego, California area who while driving passengers entered the border crossing to Mexico and in effect “accidently” self-deported.

Those on the right say, right on man!

I’ve seen where American citizens have made the same mistake and when found to be carrying contraband, i.e. drugs and/or weapons (both are a huge no-no) got no special exceptions, but paid the consequences for their actions.

This case should be no exception either.

While those on the left cite it’s a massive mistake that has consequences like separating this husband and father from his family in the US. One California Democratic congressman acknowledges that US immigration laws are broken, but we must encourage and make it easier for migrants to come here to work.

There are specific steps that immigrants can take in order to enter the US to work, to obtain legal residency (green card) and a pathway to citizenship, if they meet existing immigration requirements.

However there should be no pathway to citizenship for those who enter the US illegally. That is what makes the Trump administration’s Self-Deportation CBP Home App a great way to allow those who voluntarily leave the country with documentation that does open the door for a future return to the US AND a pathway to citizenship.

As for the unfortunate ride-share driver, his only choice at this point should be having his family join him in Mexico so they can go thru the process correctly in order to return legally. If his family self-deports using the CBP APP, they could even get a stipend and documentation that will help them return in the future.

Otherwise they are open to future deportation which could ban them from returning to the US.

As the left so aptly puts it we are a nation of immigrants and we need those farm workers, hotel workers and food service workers, however they must come here legally.

Why not focus on those Americans (there are plenty) who are unemployed and homeless who could step up, do the work and enjoy the benefits of contributing to our society, instead of being overlooked, passed over and forgotten by our politicians, the news media and US.

Tom Hanks starred in The Terminal, a movie about an immigrant without a country stuck in an airport terminal? And didn’t Will Smith also starred in a movie, The Pursuit of Happyness (2006) about a man who found himself unemployed and homeless with his son living on the streets of a major US city?

Hollywood entertainers produce a movies about problems to be solved and then in many cases side with liberal democrats, who working together in real life fail to solve anything except highlighting the number of democrat politicians see themselves as entertainers?– RTM