Trump administration says it will pay immigrants in the US illegally $1,000 to leave the country

WASHINGTON AP Pushing forward with its mass deportation agenda President Donald Trump s administration announced Monday that it would pay to immigrants who are in the United States illegally and return to their home country voluntarily The Department of Homeland Precaution stated in a news release that it would also pay for progress assistance and that people who use an app called CBP Home to tell the administration they plan to return home will be deprioritized for detention and removal by immigration enforcement If you are here illegally self-deportation is the best safest and preponderance cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest Secretary Kristi Noem reported DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial journey assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App The department stated it had already paid for a plane ticket for one migrant to return home to Honduras from Chicago and declared more tickets have been booked for this week and next It s a major part of Trump s administration Trump made immigration enforcement and the mass deportation of immigrants in the United States illegally a centerpiece of his campaign and he is following through during the first months of his administration But it is a costly resource-intensive endeavor While the Republican administration is asking Congress for a massive increase in materials for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement department responsible for removing people from the country it s also pushing people in the country illegally to self-deport It has coupled this self-deportation push with television ads threatening action against people in the U S illegally and social media images showing immigration enforcement arrests and immigrants being sent to a prison in El Salvador The Trump administration has often portrayed self-deportation as a way for movers to preserve their ability to return to the U S someday But Aaron Reichlen-Melnick a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council which advocates for immigrants revealed there s a lot for immigrants to be cautious about in the latest offer from Homeland Prevention He commented it s often worse for people to leave the country and not fight their event in immigration court especially if they re already in removal proceedings He commented if movers are in removal proceedings and don t show up in court they can automatically get a deportation order and leaving the country usually counts as abandoning various applications for relief including asylum applications It can be an intricate process And Homeland Protection is not indicating that it is closely coordinating with the immigration courts so that there are no repercussions for people in immigration court if they leave he reported People s immigration status is not as simple as this makes it out to be Reichlen-Melnick noted He questioned where Homeland Safeguard would get the money and the authorization to make the payments and he suggested they are necessary because the administration can t arrest and remove as a great number of people as it has promised so it has to encourage people to do it on their own They re not getting their numbers he revealed As part of its self-deportation effort the Trump administration has transformed an app that had been used by the Biden administration to allow nearly million transients to schedule appointments to enter the country into a tool to help newcomers return home Under the Biden administration it was called CBP One now it s dubbed CBP Home Homeland Defense disclosed thousands of newcomers have used the app to self-deport But Mark Krikorian who heads the Center for Immigration Studies which advocates for less immigration disclosed he doesn t see the offer of paying people to go home as an admission that something in the Trump administration s immigration enforcement agenda isn t working Considering the millions of people who are in the country illegally he explained it s impossible to deport all of them so the administration has to combine its own enforcement efforts with encouraging people to go home voluntarily Krikorian announced he supports the idea of paying displaced persons to leave although he questioned how it would work in reality How do you make sure that they ve indeed gone home Do you make them sign an agreement where they agree not to challenge their removal if they were to come back he questioned The execution matters but the concept is sound