The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is offering illegal aliens a bonus to self-deport themselves back to their home countries by the end of the year. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem on Monday make the following proposal to illegal aliens:
“If you voluntarily want to go home now to your country, if you’re in this United States of America illegally, we will give you $3,000 through the holidays to send you home. We’ll buy you a ticket, give you $3,000 to go home — and that includes people that have not been detained . . . [or] are detained and don’t have criminal charges against them.”
DHS views this payment as a cost-saving measure. Formal deportation of an illegal alien, including arrest, detention, and removal cost more than $17,000.
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