Trump is offering $1,000 to illegal immigrants to deport themselves using app

The Trump administration is offering $1,000 stipends to illegal immigrants willing to self-deport using an app.

On Monday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the ‘historic opportunity for illegal aliens’ to receive travel and financial assistance to return to their home countries via the CBP Home App.

‘Self-deportation is a dignified way to leave the U.S. and will allow illegal aliens to avoid being encountered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),’ stated the DHS.

The $1,000 will be paid after the immigrant’s return home is confirmed through the app.

‘If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest,’ stated Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

‘This is the safest option for our law enforcement, aliens and is a 70% savings for US taxpayers.’

It costs about $17,121 to arrest, detain and deport someone, according to the DHS.

The agency noted that ‘an illegal alien that the Biden Administration allowed into our country’ recently got a flight from Chicago to Honduras using the program and that more tickets have been booked for this week and the next.

Those who submit their intention to voluntarily self-deport will be deprioritized for detention and removal if they show efforts toward completing the process, according to the DHS.

Participating in the program ‘may help preserve the option for an illegal alien to re-enter the United States legally in the future’, stated the agency.

President Donald Trump did not immediately remark directly on the program on social media.

In the late morning, he shared his post from nine years ago with him eating a taco bowl, saying the best ones are made in Trump Tower Grill, and writing, ‘I love Hispanics!’

On Monday afternoon, Trump shared a more than two-minute-long video that included him saying, ‘My administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history.’

He captioned the post: ‘PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT.’

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