Donald Trump’s administration has said it will offer illegal immigrants $1,000 to leave the US voluntarily using an app.
In his latest move to crackdown on immigration, Trump’s home department, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), said on Monday there is a ‘historic opportunity for illegal aliens’ to leave the US under the new plans.
The system uses the app CBP Home, where migrants can register their upcoming travel out of the country.
United States Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, said: ‘If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest.
‘DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App.’
It costs about $17,121 to arrest, detain and deport someone, according to the DHS.
The agency claimed ‘an illegal alien that the Biden Administration allowed into our country’ recently got a flight from Chicago to Honduras using the program and other immigrants have booked flights home for this week.
Taking part in the program ‘may help preserve the option for an illegal alien to re-enter the United States legally in the future’, the agency said.
Yesterday, he shared his post from nine years ago with him eating a taco bowl, saying the best ones are made in Trump Tower Grill, and writing, ‘I love Hispanics!’
He then shared a more than two-minute-long video that included him saying, ‘My administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history.’
He captioned the post: ‘PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT.’
On Sunday, British television host and comedian John Oliver criticised the Trump administration’s approach to deportations, and said the White House’s social media posts were ‘nauseating’.
Referring to some posts that the Government posted last month, which showed shackled people being led onto a plane as Closing Time by Semisonic played in the background, he said: ‘The track obviously isn’t the right song choice.
‘The right song choice would be no song at all, because deportation Instagram reel is a combination of words that should never exist, like ‘Oscar winner Mr Beast’ or ‘Stephen Miller nudes’ or ‘Bill Belichick speaks about his relationship with 24-year-old girlfriend.’
He added: ‘For all this administration’s talk of prioritizing hardened criminals, in practice it seems to value speed, volume and spectacle over all else.’
The 1990s classic rock band, who are also known for their hits Secret Smile and Singing in My Sleep, have previously denounced Trump’s Government for using the song.
