
Press Briefing on CBP Home App with Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Joe Salazar, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
03/24/2025
Press Briefing on CBP Home App with Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Joe Salazar, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.
03/24/2025 05:17 PM EDT
Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Department of Homeland Security
Joseph "Joe" Salazar, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs, Department of State
MODERATOR: Good afternoon, everyone. I am Amanda Roberson, the deputy director of the U.S. State Department’s Miami Media Hub. We welcome journalists who have joined from the United States and across Latin America. This is an on-the-record press briefing in English with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish. We are fortunate to have Tricia McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; and Joe Salazar, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. State Department.
Assistant Secretary McLaughlin will discuss the new CBP Home program that offers unlawfully present illegal immigrants the opportunity to voluntarily depart the United States. Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary Salazar will be available to answer questions related to the Department of State. We will begin this hub call with opening remarks from Assistant Secretary McLaughlin, then I will moderate questions from journalists.
For simultaneous Spanish language interpretation, please look for the globe symbol on the Zoom platform and then select the audio language you prefer. We ask that you please write your name and affiliation in the user label on Zoom to help us identify you correctly during the question session.
And as a reminder, today’s briefing is on the record, attributable to Assistant Secretary McLaughlin, from whom we will hear now.