Trump Administrators will offer $1,000 to self-destruct migrants using CBP 1 app
The move is the latest in President Donald Trump’s efforts to crack down on illegal immigration.
Scripps News
WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security offers $1,000 salaries and free airfares to migrants who deport themselves.
The proposal, released on May 5, will strengthen the department’s previous encouragement for immigrants without legal permission to announce their intention to leave it to the CBP Home App for Customs Border Protection without being in the US without legal permission.
The department estimates that paying the fee for voluntary deportation is much cheaper than the current average of $17,121 to arrest, detain and remove immigrants.
“If you’re here illegally, self-deporting is the best, safest, and most cost-effective way to leave the US to avoid arrest,” DHS Director Christa Noem said in a statement.
President Donald Trump told May 5th reporters at the White House that the court made it extremely difficult to deport immigrants, but he hopes the Supreme Court will ultimately be adjacent to the administration. Trump said immigrants who deport themselves will receive some money and get a “beautiful flight back to where they came” and if they work hard they will have the opportunity to return to the US.
“If they miss that limit, they’ll be taken from our country,” Trump said in his oval office. “And they never get a path back, and it’s a much more demanding process.”
The incentive is that immigrants who agree to agree to voluntary deportation are not a priority for detention and removal prior to planned departures, the Department of Homeland Security added that participation in the program could preserve immigrants’ options for re-entering the United States in the future.
“And if they make it, we’re going to work with them, one day, with a little bit of work, if they’re good people, if they’re hardworking people who can love our (country), our country, if they’re good people, then they can come back,” Trump said. “And otherwise, it’s not.”
The Department of Homeland Security said the offer for travel assistance has already been successful. Immigrants who entered the country without permission received tickets for a flight from Chicago to Honduras, and said more tickets were booked for others in the coming weeks.
(This story has been updated with more information.)