The Homeland Security Department increases its efforts to persuade unauthorized immigrants to only deports from $ 1,000 scholarship and tourist assistance.
Federal Agency announced on Monday that those who use Home Application CBP Voluntarily leaving the United States will get help “to allow a trip to your home country” and $ 1,000 “paid after returning to their home country is confirmed through the application.”
The announcement comes as the number of deportations remained stagnant during the President Donald Trump first 100 days in the Office. One of the key campaigns of the President was that he would bring mass deportations as soon as he took office.
DHS did not immediately answer the questions about how the funds would provide or which proof should show that the person returns to his home country.
DHS spokesman Tricia McLaughlin said that in late March that those who are self-sufficing can use biographical data, documents, facial pictures and a geo location to prove that they have left the country. “Alien must be at least three miles outside the United States to successfully use this feature” she said. “Although the use of the functionality of the Verify departure is optional, if the alien is selected to use it, they must send a face image.”
In Public statementDHS Secretary Kristi Neem said that the independent deportations “the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest”.
One deportation costs US taxpayers $ 17,121, according to DHS. The Federal Agency expects only deportations to reduce by 70%, even after factoring in the scholarship.
So far this year, At least 5,000 immigrants They allegedly used the CBP home to say that they are voluntarily leaving the country, according to the Institute for Migration Policies, Washington Think Tank.
DHS refused to say how many unauthorized immigrants used the application for now to deport it.
According to Appfigures, the company following the application downloads, the Home Application CBP recently taken about 1,500 times a day. From the beginning of 2025. year, the application was taken over 300,000 times, according to the Executive Director of Ariel Michaeli.
In March, the Trump Administration separated one BISENE-ERA application to the Migrants enabled the migrants to legally entered US asylums, changing it to Home Application CBP. This version of the mobile application has a self-service reporting feature.
Trump Administration has spent $ 200 million in the application renewal And creating an accompanying advertising campaign with noema to promote the use of the application.
The Ads broadcast in English and Spanish over the US and MexicoEncourage immigrants that are not legally present in the US to leave the country.
As part of their announcement, DHS said that immigrants who “lit their intention to voluntarily only deports in the CBP will also be protruded for detention and removal on the eve of their departure as long as they make meaningful progress in completing that deviations.”
The agency also said that the self-determiners through the application “can help preserve the option for illegal aliens to enter the future in the future”, “echo key points in their ads.
Experts and proponents and immigration have previously warned of noeme’s self-appropriate message and the possibility of making a legal return in the USA
“The operational word in the quotation from the secretary is” Maya “,” Kathleen Bush-Joseph, a political analyst with the American immigration political program at the Institute for Migration Policies, said in March NBC.
“For many people leaving the United States, you may never have a lawful option to return to the United States, or in March in March, the Refredi was banned,” ReErntry Altman, the vice president of the advocacy policy, in March. “Forcing or forcing people to leave their homes and their loved ones wear political, moral and economic costs.”
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