“Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a historic opportunity for illegal aliens to receive both financial and travel assistance to facilitate travel back to their home country through the CBP Home App. Any illegal alien who uses the CBP Home App to self-deport will also receive a stipend of $1,000 dollars, paid after their return to their home country has been confirmed through the app. 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. Even with the cost of the stipend, it is projected that the use of CBP Home will decrease the costs of a deportation by around 70 percent. Currently the average cost to arrest, detain, and remove an illegal alien is $17,121.”
“The first use of travel assistance has already proven successful. An illegal alien that the Biden Administration allowed into our country recently utilized the program to receive a ticket for a flight from Chicago to Honduras. Additional tickets have already been booked for this week and the following week,” says the Department of Homeland Security in a Monday press release and Jesus Christ, lol at all the careful explaining about how it’s actually cheaper for taxpayers this way.
Also, at no point does the release mention how DHS would prevent Chicago-area Honduran-American US citizens from simply lying about their status to get a free flight to their ancestral homeland and $1,000 spending money before booking another flight home a week or two later.
Even if they were going to be diligent about that, this still is a pretty good summary of the situation of where the Trump Regime is at and how far they are from the horseshit they sold to their cult about US Marines going door-to-door and dragging families out of their homes to be thrown on buses bound for mass internment camps: Free flights and a $1,000 stipend. Congrats, Trump fans.