"The Trump administration is offering undocumented migrants $3,000 and paid travel if they agree to leave the US voluntarily before the end of the year, its latest effort to escalate mass deportations and slash enforcement costs. Undocumented migrants who self-deport using the CBP Home app will have their travel arranged and paid for by the Department of Homeland Security and will qualify for forgiveness of any civil fines or penalties for failing to leave the US, according to the department."
"The policy announcement is part of a holiday-season campaign aimed at speeding up deportations. One post on the Homeland Security Department's X account warned people living illegally in the US that they are "GOING HO HO HOME." "Illegal aliens should take advantage of this gift and self-deport because if they don't, we will find them, we will arrest them, and they will never return," Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement."
The Trump administration is offering undocumented migrants $3,000 and paid travel to voluntarily leave the United States and will forgive civil fines or penalties for those who self-deport using the CBP Home app. The $3,000 stipend triples the $1,000 payout unveiled in May. Homeland Security framed the campaign as a holiday push, warning people they are 'GOING HO HO HOME' and Secretary Kristi Noem urged self-deportation while threatening arrest and a permanent bar to return. Noem said 1.9 million migrants have self-deported since January 2025 and tens of thousands used CBP Home. Officials say the program saves money compared with the roughly $17,000 cost to arrest, detain, and remove a migrant, though lawyers and activists question claims about future legal return.
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