DHS website traffic surges 68% as self-deportation app gains popularity
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FIRST ON FOX: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed record traffic to the agency’s official website, with one of the site’s most visited pages including information on self-deportation through the CBP Home app.
DHS reported a 68.49% increase in traffic compared to 2024. The department reports that its website received 102 million page views last year and 67 million unique visitors, an increase from 40 million page views in 2024.
“Under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump and Secretary Noem, DHS celebrated one of the most significant periods of action and reform in American history in 2025,” a DHS spokesperson told Fox News Digital in a statement. “From creating the most secure border ever, to eliminating dangerous criminal illegal aliens, to fixing disaster response, and ushering in a golden age of travel, DHS will continue to build on this success and innovate to find ways to meet the needs of the American people.” »
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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem touted the agency’s historically low border apprehensions, as well as other DHS victories, following her first year leading the agency under the Trump administration. (Getty Images/Alex Brandon)
The agency also plans to launch a new website that will improve transparency about DHS and make it easier to navigate.
“This redesigned website is another example of this commitment to innovation and to being the most transparent administration in American history,” the spokesperson added.
The CPB Home app is a mobile application that allows users who are in the United States illegally to self-deport. The app launched last March during the second Trump administration.
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DHS has reported that tens of thousands of illegal immigrants have used the app to self-deport. The agency also provides a $1,000 stipend to those who successfully self-deport, as well as “financial and travel assistance to facilitate return to their country of origin.”
DHS launched a Cyber Monday deal giving illegal immigrants a free flight home and a $1,000 bonus if they self-deport over the holiday. (Department of Homeland Security (DHS))
The agency has rolled out several new features as a means of communicating with the public, including the “Worst of the Worst” website, which highlights the most dangerous illegal migrants apprehended by the agency.
The “Worst of the Worst” site includes rapists, murderers, child predators and other illegal immigrants who have been convicted or indicted in the United States.
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The new look and record website traffic come as the agency touts historic numbers in the first year of the second Trump administration.
“In President Trump’s first year back in office, nearly 3 million illegal aliens left the United States due to the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, including approximately 2.2 million self-deportations and more than 675,000 expulsions,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement.
DHS is rolling out a new website design after record traffic to the site after the first year of the Trump administration. (Department of Homeland Security (DHS))
The agency says U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) arrests over the past 12 months have been the lowest in USBP history, and the total number of arrests over the past year was lower than the monthly average of arrests under the Biden administration.
“Last year, fentanyl trafficking across the southern border was also reduced by more than half compared to the same period in 2024,” Noem added. “The U.S. Coast Guard alone seized enough cocaine to kill more than 177 million Americans.”
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“In the meantime, we have saved taxpayers more than $13.2 billion here at DHS,” Noem continued.
The agency is looking ahead to the next calendar year with new initiatives as well as continued efforts to deport illegal migrants, including U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services implementing a “new rule to prioritize the issuance of H-1B visas to the most qualified and highest-paid foreign nationals.”
Preston Mizell is a writer for Fox News. Story tips can be sent to Preston.Mizell@fox.com and on X @MizellPreston
