The Trump administration is offering $1,000 payments and travel assistance to immigrants in the U.S. illegally who choose to return home voluntarily. This initiative is part of an overall strategy to promote self-deportation, which aims to minimize resource use in mass deportations. The Department of Homeland Security emphasizes that using the new CBP Home app will help avoid detention. Despite cost considerations, the administration continues to seek increased resources for deportation efforts while presenting self-deportation as a safer alternative for undocumented immigrants.
"If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest," Secretary Kristi Noem said.
"DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App."
The department said it had already paid for a plane ticket for one migrant to return home to Honduras from Chicago and said more tickets have been booked for this week and next.
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.
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