Posted on 05/06/2025 11:04:53 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
The Trump administration is now incentivizing illegal immigrants to leave the country by offering a four-figure government subsidy to cover travel costs of leaving the United States.
Illegal immigrants who choose to use the government phone app CBP Home to self-deport to their home country are now eligible for a $1,000 payment once they are confirmed to have made it back home, the Department of Homeland Security announced Monday.
“If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest,” Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement. “DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App.”
The DHS added that self-deportation poses a “dignified way” for people to leave the U.S. rather than being targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
Noem added that although the government incurs some cost when illegal immigrants self-deport, it will still save significantly more than the government facilitating the deportation and is the “safest” option for law enforcement rather than going into communities and arresting people.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I agree with your entire take. The pragmatist in me says, just get it done.
Restitution would create a host of problems. The logistics of feeding, clothing, transporting and medical care. Also, they would need training. In wWhat language are they going to be handled?
Just get them gone. Car simpler than any other option.
In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled Trump administration now paying $1,000 to illegal immigrants who self-deport, EnderWiggin1970 wrote: The pragmatist in me can see the point of this program (as the article points out, it's cheaper than getting federal agents and resources involved to deport someone). But I think it's only fair that illegal immigrants should provide restitution to the American people before they are allowed to return to their homes. Putting them to work building border walls and other infrastructure projects to extract a reasonable amount of value/labor from them to compensate the American people would be just, and repay taxpayers for having to shell out money for programs like this. I favor the pragmatist view. Rounding these people up (paying Border Patrol), housing/feeding/transporting them until they get off the bus at the border likely costs more and entails risks to BP officers.
The Left would trend the term 'slavery' if illegals provided labor in exchange for leaving. Hard for them to let go of free housing/cash/medical etc. in addition to not having to work, in exchange for manual labor and $1000.
"Just get it done" means we don't have to house/feed/medically treat them sooner rather than later.
The males of military age, many from around the globe, are the Deep State's army and the Deep STate is panicking. I'd rather have their army on the other side of the wall.
I would rather see Americans paid a $1k a piece bounty on illegals captured for deportation processing.
Yes
I can think of worse things, once they reach home a $1,000 is a nice package to get restarted in those poor countries but it isn’t enough to lead people to come here to get that small sum.
We will pay for the airfare and on arrival, they have to initiate some kind of validation they have actually arrived and THEN they get the 1K
I don’t envision many signing up, but I’m of the “just get it done” train!
I’ve just hit a point the $1,00 and done, out ASAP, is just worth it. While I’d like to see consequences, I’m just wanting this headache to go away. Now. And done.
Some two bit judge in a blue precinct somewhere will stop this. Just watch.
And they should be required to pay the $1,000’s back if they’re ever allowed back in.
If we could spend $20 Billion to deport 20 Million illegals that would probably a good deal compared to other options.
Lol. Interesting idea.
10-20 Billion would certainly be the cheapest way to get them all out of the country, as well as, being the quickest & easiest way.
It may be fun getting creative, however, it may also present pitfalls down the road. Let's just get it over with & move on.
It just irks me that an injustice is done, and then there is no restitution.
Do you really believe you could handle multiple TdA (Tren de Aragua) or MS-13 gangbangers without having to kill one? If you get lucky you might find yourself in a blue state that will prosecute you & then the Democrats would demand an end to the vigilantism, and we would once again be stuck with them. 😋
Perhaps the restitution should come from all who supported open borders. We could start with all Democrat & RINO politicians, at all levels of the various governments and work outward from there. They would be the easiest & richest guilty that would be a slam dunk. We could retrieve more money than work from the illegals. 😁👍
Then we move to the businesses.
The private citizens can sign a waiver type agreement where they claim they never supported the open border agreement, with a clause that if evidence is ever produced that showed this lied on this waiver because they did support the open borders invasion, they will pay a fine of 10K & possible jail time. Or they could pay the $20 restitution right now instead of signing the waiver & committing perjury. 😁
Just a thought. 🤣
I guess I see a problem here in that it is like offering enlistment bonuses to men to enlist in regiments during the Civil War. They would enlist in a regiment in one state, desert in a few months, and enlist again in another regiment in another state ofr another bonus. Since these are criminals to begin with, then I can imagine them adopting a similar tactic or at least returning and going off the grid.
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