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Trump’s DHS Pays Illegal Immigrants to Leave — Critics Ignore the Cost of Letting Them Stay
Townhall ^ | 12/25/2025 | Amy Curtis

Posted on 12/25/2025 9:47:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind

The Department of Homeland Security and ICE revealed earlier this week that they're giving illegal immigrants a lucrative incentive to leave our country voluntarily.

On December 22, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced a program that would give illegal immigrants a one-time payment of $3,000 if they self-deported. That's a $2,000 increase from the $1,000 incentive the Trump administration has been offering since the start of his second term.

"Well, it's home for the holidays season so, you know, not only are we returning those kiddos back to their families that Biden lost, we also are saying that if you voluntarily want to go home now to your country, if you're in this United States of America illegally, we will give you $3,000 through the holidays to send you home," Noem said in a Fox News interview. "We will buy you a ticket, give you $3,000 to go home, and that includes people that have not been detained, maybe have interacted with us, are detained, and don't have criminal charges against them."

"Raise your hand, we'll help you get home, we'll facilitate it, and you might get the chance to come back to this country the right way someday," Noem added. "If you wait until we interdict you and detain you, and arrest you, and have to deport you ourselves, you'll never get the chance to come back. So go on the CBP home app, and get the information, and we'll make sure you get home in time for Christmas."

ICE also dropped a festive ad about the offer, one that featured Santa donning some ICE gear.

"Avoid ICE Air and Santa's Naughty List!" the social media post read. "Self-deport today with the CBP Home app, earn $3,000 and spend Christmas at home with loved ones. Holiday incentive is valid through the end of 2025."

But some find this problematic, and wonder why we're spending this money "rewarding" illegal immigrants.

"Can you imagine if Joe Biden started rewarding illegal immigrants with $3,000 checks on their way home? Oh how it would be mocked! Noem takes $$ from you and sends it to illegal immigrants b/c she cares more about population purity than any other value."

What a load.

Joe Biden rewarded millions of illegal immigrants with far more than that, on a daily basis, and let them stay here. It costs American taxpayers at least $150 billion annually to house, feed, and educate illegal immigrants.

Whatever we spend to deport them will pale in comparison to the vast sums of money we'd pay to keep them here.

FEMA even used money to put illegal immigrants up in fancy hotels while kicking North Carolinians displaced by hurricanes out of their hotels into the winter weather.

This mess was created by the Biden administration, and the Trump administration is cleaning up the mess.

That's something one social media user pointed out.

"She's busy fixing the mess the last administration put us in. Funny how detractors say nothing about four years of open borders, 300k lost children, and hundreds of dead illegal aliens trying to get across the border at the hands of cartels. Noem has the fortitude to take that on," one social media user wrote.

This is true. The Biden administration tried to create a mess so catastrophic that it would be impossible for the next administration, Democrat or otherwise, to fix it. Of course, we all know Kamala Harris would've continued the Biden-era policies and made things even worse.

Fixing the immigration problem is hard because Democrats made it hard.

But Bier doubled down, writing, "No personal responsibility. Always blaming others for your ineptitude, failures, and lack of principle. Lots of lies. No leadership."

No, this is what leadership and responsibility look like. And this is exactly what we voted for.



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deportation; enemedia; illegals

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1 posted on 12/25/2025 9:47:18 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
"Can you imagine if Joe Biden started rewarding illegal immigrants with $3,000 checks on their way home?…”

Unbelievable.

The rat traitor gave them $12K plus an apartment, welfare, and transportation when he bought their services.

2 posted on 12/25/2025 9:54:06 PM PST by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sounds like David Biers’ cartel boyfriend has threatened to stop pleasuring him if he didn’t write these things...


3 posted on 12/25/2025 10:01:02 PM PST by kiryandil (Resistance to The Odor is defiance to grainpidity)
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To: SeekAndFind
Julio's girl:


4 posted on 12/25/2025 10:04:17 PM PST by kiryandil (Resistance to The Odor is defiance to grainpidity)
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To: SeekAndFind

Money well spent. See it as a down payment on the future border security of America.


5 posted on 12/25/2025 10:30:17 PM PST by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind

Also the cost of tracking them down and deporting them should be considered more than the loss.

wy69


6 posted on 12/25/2025 10:31:07 PM PST by whitney69 (`)
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To: SeekAndFind

Hopefully, with the number of Latin American countries now electing right leaning/conservative presidents, more countries will be cleaning things up internally and most illegals will be motivated to return home.

The excuse of fleeing danger will be gone.


7 posted on 12/25/2025 10:31:50 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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To: SeekAndFind

And Social Security got a 2.8% COLA.


8 posted on 12/25/2025 10:34:20 PM PST by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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To: SeekAndFind

The taxpaying public would be better served if we had a $3K bounty on each illegal.
I can’t get behind any program that rewards those gate-crashers with anything, let alone money.


9 posted on 12/26/2025 12:11:57 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: SeekAndFind

A Christmas special deal!

I like it.

I wonder how many took them up on it?


10 posted on 12/26/2025 2:20:02 AM PST by Adder (End fascism...defeat all Democrats.)
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To: SeekAndFind
"And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we’ve proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane".
-- Kipling
11 posted on 12/26/2025 2:45:28 AM PST by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Secretary Kristi Noem announced a program that would give illegal immigrants a one-time payment of $3,000 if they self-deported."

Offer expires 12/31//2025.
12 posted on 12/26/2025 2:49:53 AM PST by equaviator (Nobody's perfect. That's why they put pencils on erasers!)
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To: ComputerGuy

This. I could sure use $3000.


13 posted on 12/26/2025 2:52:38 AM PST by sheana
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To: Nachoman

“And Social Security got a 2.8% COLA.”

So? People vote for and love their socialism.


14 posted on 12/26/2025 3:20:04 AM PST by CodeToad
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