President Donald Trump’s return to the White House has delivered on his core campaign promise of restoring America’s immigration system, but perhaps the most ingenious strategy has been his administration’s unprecedented self-deportation initiative, a cost-effective approach that’s already showing results while saving taxpayers millions of dollars.

Thousands of illegal immigrants have already used the new CBP Home app to self-deport, while border crossings and encounters have dropped by 95% compared to Biden-era peaks.

ICE arrests have more than doubled in 2025, with over 158,000 illegal aliens taken into custody, 75% of them criminal offenders, including more than 600 members of the violent Tren de Aragua gang.

ICE detention capacity has expanded from 41,500 to 54,500 beds, and the strategic use of military assets for deportation flights has increased efficiency while signaling a serious commitment to enforcement.

And as successful as the Trump administration has been with forced deportations, self-deportation costs taxpayers 70% less than traditional deportation methods.

The CBP One app, once used under the Biden administration as a tool to facilitate illegal entry, has been transformed under Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem into a platform for facilitating self-deportation.

The app now offers illegal immigrants a $1,000 cash incentive upon confirmed departure, free travel assistance and documentation, forgiveness of failure-to-depart fines, potential future legal immigration opportunities, and de-prioritization for ICE enforcement actions.

The total cost of each self-deportation falls well below the $17,121 average cost of traditional deportations.

Secretary Noem explained the choice facing illegal immigrants clearly:
“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. If they don’t, we will find them, we will deport them, and they will never return.”

Trump’s approach goes beyond just offering incentives, it includes meaningful consequences through a comprehensive strategy.

The administration has launched a $200 million “Stay Out and Leave Now” campaign, making clear that voluntary departure is preferable to forced removal.

Project Homecoming represents a nationwide strategic effort that includes targeted enforcement through high-profile raids and deportations, legal pathway removal—such as the elimination of Temporary Protected Status for 500,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela—and international cooperation through a partnership with the UN’s International Organization for Migration to facilitate returns.

Even immigration policy experts acknowledge the unprecedented scale and innovation of Trump’s approach.

Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute, noted that Trump’s self-deportation campaign operates “at a scale which probably has not been detected in our history.”

The deportations are already having a positive impact on the U.S. labor market.

According to recent labor data, the number of foreign-born workers in the workforce dropped by over one million from March to May 2025, coinciding with rising wages and a shrinking labor force in key sectors.

Perhaps most importantly, the campaign is changing behavior throughout immigrant communities.

Reports show families considering departure rather than living in fear of enforcement, exactly the deterrent effect the administration intended.

This behavioral shift marks a clean break from the Biden-era’s catch-and-release policies that encouraged illegal entry.

Other benefits include a reduced burden on immigration courts and detention facilities, freeing up resources for legitimate cases. More assets can now be focused on targeting serious criminals instead of processing endless asylum claims.

The irony is that media and political opponents of Trump’s immigration crackdown may actually be accelerating voluntary departures by amplifying coverage of enforcement actions, frightening illegal immigrants into self-deporting and discouraging others from attempting to cross the border illegally.

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As it was widely anticipated, a black male juror at Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sex-trafficking trial has been officially dismissed today (16) after the Judger found that he had ‘shaded his answers’ to be on the case.

Presiding judge Arun Subramanian has said on Friday that he was likely going to let ‘Juror 6’ go after ‘he allegedly lied about where he lives’.

The New York Post reported:

“Monday morning, the judge made it official, saying, ‘The record raised serious questions about the juror shading his answers to be on the jury’.

Juror 6, who is black, was replaced by ‘Alternate 1’, who is white — over vigorous objections from Combs’ lawyers that this would reduce the panel’s diversity.”

Judge: The record raised serious concerns about the juror shading his answers to be on the jury. The shifting answers raised questions about the juror’s credibility. So the Court indicated Juror 6 should be dismissed. The defense now urges further questioning

— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) June 16, 2025

Judge: The defense raised concerns about replacing an African American juror with a white one, and cite a 2d Circuit case. The Court takes this seriously- but further questioning is inappropriate and might negatively impact the jury. This is why we have alternates

— Inner City Press (@innercitypress) June 16, 2025

Besides that question with ‘Juror 6’, there is also a ‘mysterious issue’ with yet another juror that judge Subramanian will address at the end of the day, by questioning them.

Inner City Press on X:

“Judge: ‘As to the issue about another juror that arose on Friday [in sealed session]. So, I will question that juror at the end of today’s session. The parties should tell me if we clear the courtroom, or do it in the robing room’.”

The alternate panelist substituting ‘Juror 6’ is a 57-year-old white male architect from Westchester with a master’s degree in mechanical engineering.

He joins the jury in Diddy trial after ‘6’ was stricken this morning for lying to the court about where he lives.

Read more:

Judge in Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs Trial Will Remove Black Male Juror From Panel After Finding He Lied During Selection To Get Onto the Jury

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The feds hit Minnesota assassin Vance Boelter with new charges after he was captured late Sunday evening.

Feds are filing stalking and federal
murder charges against Boelter

Potential death penalty case

— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) June 16, 2025

Boelter, 57, shot and killed Minnesota State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband early Saturday morning.

Boelter also shot and wounded Democrat State Senator John Hoffman and his wife.

“John is enduring many surgeries right now and is closer every hour to being out of the woods. He took 9 bullet hits. I took 8 and we are both incredibly lucky to be alive,” John Hoffman’s wife Yvette Hoffman said on Sunday. “We are gutted and devastated by the loss of Melissa and Mark. We have no words. There is never a place for this kind of political hate. Thank you for your friendship always. Minnesotans are at our very best when we stand together.”

Investigators say Boelter, disguised as a police officer, wore a realistic-looking silicon face mask as he knocked on the legislators’ homes.

Acting US Attorney Joe Thompson said Boelter went to FOUR legislators’ homes on Saturday.

“In the early morning hours of June 14th, Boelter went to the homes of four Minnesota state politicians with the intent to kill them,” Acting US Attorney Joe Thompson said.

Thompson also revealed new details on the ambush of Senator Hoffman.

According to the FBI, Boelter knocked on Hoffman’s door and said, “open up, it’s the police!”

After Senator Hoffman opened his front door, Boelter reportedly shined a flashlight in his eyes and told him there was reports of a shooting at the residence.

Hoffman quickly realized Boelter was not a police officer but it was too late. Boelter forced his way into the Hoffmans’ home and shot Senator Hoffman and his wife several times.

Hoffman’s daughter called 911.

WATCH:

Acting U.S. attorney Joseph Thompson gives details on the shooting that injured Minnesota State Sen. John Hoffman (DFL) and his wife.

“In the early morning hours of June 14th, [Vance] Boelter went to the homes of four Minnesota state politicians with the intent to kill them.” pic.twitter.com/MdfCZ89Fwu

— Heartland Signal (@HeartlandSignal) June 16, 2025

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Two DMV employees are among eight individuals arrested in Bay County for involvement in a fraudulent driver’s license ring—issuing official state licenses to illegal aliens in exchange for cash, in clear defiance of state law.

The Bay County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO), in conjunction with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), began investigating in mid‑May after noticing suspicious spikes in license issuance at the Bay County Tax Collector’s office, according to CDL Life.

Wow. Eight people arrested, including 2 DMV employees in scheme to issue fraudulent drivers licenses including to ILLEGAL ALIENS in exchange for money.

Hundreds of fraudulent licenses were reportedly issued pic.twitter.com/Yg4qcxcpYZ

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 16, 2025

According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Office:

Bay County Sheriff Tommy Ford announced today at a press conference the results of a joint investigation with partner agencies which resulted in eight arrests and the seizure of $120,000 in illicit proceeds. The investigation is ongoing and additional charges and arrests are expected.

On May 20, 2025, Bay County Sheriff’s Office investigators began the joint investigation with HSI due to the discovery of suspicious driver’s license transactions occurring at the Bay County Tax Collectors Office, the agent issuing driver’s licenses for the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (DHSMV).

Information was reported that two DMV employees were compromised and were being financially compensated to provide individuals with drivers’ licenses, even though the individuals did not meet statutory requirements to lawfully obtain the license.

During the investigation, BCSO investigators learned that two employees were indeed issuing a unusually large number of drivers licenses and, when in-house video at the DMV was reviewed, investigators confirmed the individuals receiving the licenses were bypassing the required tests necessary to lawfully receive a license. These individuals were coming from across the state of Florida to Bay County to receive the drivers’ licenses.

The two employees have been arrested. They are Bancelie Velazco, age 37, of Panama City, and Demetrius Smith, II, age 30, of Panama City. Velazco has been charged with nine counts of DMV Employee Issue Unlawful DL and nine counts of Official Misconduct.

Smith has been charged with eight counts of DMV Employee Issue Unlawful DL and eight counts of Official Misconduct. Approximately $120,000 in US currency was seized from the homes of the arrested employees as illicit proceeds.

It was also learned that the individuals coming to Velazco and Smith to obtain their DL were doing so through a third party operating as intermediaries and were paying Velazco and Smith either in person at the DMV or online through a cash app.

Financial records of Smith and Velazco were reviewed and it was learned that both of them were receiving suspicious cash app transactions and that Velazco was depositing a suspicious amount of cash into her accounts, inconsistent with her monthly salary.

Some of the intermediaries were not individuals but organizations like CubaMax, located in Callaway in Bay County. CubaMax is a company that processes immigration documents.

CubaMax acted as a referral source for those seeking to obtain drivers’ licenses fraudulently, directing them to the local DMV. A search warrant was executed at CubaMax to obtain evidence of this scheme.

Additional individuals identified as intermediaries in this operation have been arrested. They are:

Niurbis Rosales, age 37, of Panama City, on 24 counts of Principal: DMV Employee Issue Fraud DL and 24 counts Principal: Official Misconduct. She owned and operated CubaMax.

Leonardo Gutierrez,, age 32, of Panama City, on seven counts of Principal: DMV Employee Issue Fraud DL and seven counts Principal: Official Misconduct.

Hung Du, age58, of Panama City, on 36 counts Principal: DMV Employee Issue Fraud DL and 36 counts Principal: Official Misconduct.

Isbrieta Parra, age 44, of Panama City, on seven counts Principal: DMV Employee Issue Fraud DL and seven counts Principal: Official Misconduct.

Zoila Gonzalez-Pena, age 38, of Panama City, on 12 counts Principal: DMV Employee Issue Fraud DL and 12 counts Principal: Official Misconduct. She was an employee at CubaMax.

Also arrested but not identified as operating as an intermediary was Mirna Fernandez, age 34, of Panama City, on a charge of Unlawful Possession of a Driver’s License. It is believed that Fernandez obtained her Driver’s License fraudulently, paying to receive a passing grade on her exam and skills exam.

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Israeli warplanes struck the headquarters of Iran’s state television network, IRIB, during a live news bulletin.

The broadcast was interrupted by a deafening explosion that sent smoke and debris billowing through the studio — forcing the anchor to abandon her desk mid-sentence and flee as the line went dead.

More from News 18:

It comes after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that the “Iranian propaganda and incitement mouthpiece is on its way to disappearing.”

The Iranian media said the explosion happened while a presenter was delivering a live on-air criticism of Israel. Moments later, she was seen leaving the broadcast, with footage of the incident widely circulated online.

During the live broadcast, a reporter on Iranian state television remarked that the studio was filling with dust following “the sound of aggression against the homeland.”

Moments later, an explosion struck, shattering the screen behind her as she rushed off camera. The channel then abruptly switched to prerecorded programming.

Just an hour before the incident, Israel had issued a warning to evacuate the part of Tehran where the TV studios are based.

BREAKING: Iran’s state TV says it is being attacked by Israel. pic.twitter.com/1wKC9BgWD5

— Clash Report (@clashreport) June 16, 2025

According to Israeli command, the strike came after the IDF gained full air superiority over Tehran by neutralizing Iran’s air defense systems. It’s part of Operation Rising Lion — launched June 13 — targeting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, missile sites, military networks… and now, media hubs deemed complicit in war propaganda.

Global attention mounts. The U.S. has helped intercept Iranian missiles but stops short of direct involvement. European leaders, including Germany, back Israel’s right to defend itself.

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