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The Trump administration said Monday it will pay for the travel and give $1,000 to undocumented migrants who “self-deport” back to their home country.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App,” Noem said in a statement.<\/p>\n
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DHS said the stipend of $1,000 will be paid after a person’s return to their home country has been confirmed through the app.<\/p>\n
“Self-deportation is a dignified way to leave the US and will allow illegal aliens to avoid being encountered by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),” the department said in the statement.<\/p>\n
DHS said that even with the payment of travel assistance and the stipend “it is projected that the use of CBP Home will decrease the costs of a deportation by around 70 percent.”<\/p>\n
It said that the average cost currently to arrest, detain, and remove an undocumented migrant is $17,121.<\/p>\n
DHS said an undocumented migrant from Honduras had already taken advantage of the program to return home.<\/p>\n
US President Donald Trump pledged during his White House campaign to deport millions of undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)<\/i><\/p>\n
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