As the Trump administration continues to target the undocumented community and urge them to self-deport, some U.S. citizens have considered leaving the country themselves.

Earlier this summer, Julie Ear dropped off her mother at the Tijuana airport to self-deport. She documented the tearful departure in a TikTok video, which has since reached over 9.3 million views and garnered thousands of sympathetic comments.

“With my mom’s complicated legal status, she decided to [self-deport] on her own terms,” Ear says in the clip. At the time of the video’s publication, ICE raids were spreading across Southern California, her mother’s home for the past 36 years.

In March, the Trump administration rolled out its multimillion-dollar ad campaign warning undocumented individuals to self-depor

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