Trump administration to pay $1,000 to immigrants who ‘self-deport’

President Donald Trump gestures from the stairs of Air Force One upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Sunday May Photo by Luis M Alvarez Associated Press Pushing forward with its mass deportation agenda President Donald Trump s administration noted Monday it would pay to immigrants who are in the United States illegally and return to their home country voluntarily The Department of Homeland Defense stated in a news release that would also pay for advance assistance and that those people who use an app called CBP Home to tell the establishment that 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 majority cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest Secretary Kristi Noem announced DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial trip assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App The department explained it had already paid for a plane ticket for one migrant to return home to Honduras from Chicago and explained more tickets have been booked for this week and next It s a major part of Trump s administration Trump has made immigration enforcement and the mass deportation of immigrants in the U S 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 pushing Congress for a massive increase in information 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 foreigners being sent to a prison in El Salvador The Trump administration has often portrayed self-deportation as a way for the expatriates 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 movers to be cautious about in this latest offer from Homeland Defense He noted it s often worse for people to leave the country and not fight their affair in immigration court especially if they re already in removal proceedings He revealed if transients 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 a multitude of applications for relief including asylum applications It can be an intricate process And Homeland Precaution is not indicating that it is closely coordinating this push to get asylum seekers to self-deport with the immigration courts so that there are no repercussions for people in immigration court if they leave he mentioned People s immigration status is not as simple as this makes it out to be Reichlen-Melnick explained He questioned where Homeland Precaution would get the money and the authorization to make these payments and suggested the payments are necessary because the administration is not able to arrest and remove as numerous people as it has promised so it has to encourage people to do it on their own They re not getting their numbers he explained 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 movers to schedule appointments to enter the country into a tool to help expatriates return home Under the Biden administration it was called CBP One and now it s dubbed CBP Home Homeland Safety mentioned without offering evidence that thousands of displaced persons have used the app to self-deport