Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced plans to pay illegal immigrants $1,000 to “self-deport.” In a press release Monday, the DHS revealed that migrants who use the CBP One app to notify authorities of their intent to leave the country will receive travel assistance and be given lower priority for detention and deportation. “If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest,” Noem said during the announcement. “DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App,” she added. She also bragged that the initiative is a “70 percent savings for U.S. taxpayers” because it currently costs an average of $17,121 to arrest, detain, and remove people who are in the U.S. illegally, according to the DHS. President Donald Trump spoke about a potential stipend plan last month. “We’re going to give them some money and a plane ticket, and then we’re going to work with them—if they’re good, if we want them back in—to get them back in as quickly as we can,” he claimed in an interview with Fox Noticias.
