Trump administration set pay illegal migrants $1000 to self-deport
Donald Trump is paying illegal immigrants US$1000 to deport themselves using an app, as the US President slammed Mexico for refusing troops to fight cartels.
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The Trump administration has started paying illegal migrants to US$1,000 each to “self-deport” from the US, and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it will save taxpayers up to US$1 million per family.
Immigrants can avoid arrest by federal immigration agents if they choose to use the Trump administration’s CBP Home app.
The DHS will pay for commercial flights out of the US, and then send cash once they confirm they’ve left.
Despite shelling out the cash, DHS projects that taxpayers will save 70 per cent over the cost of rounding up and deporting each illegal migrant.
It costs American taxpayers an average of US$17,121 for federal officials to arrest, detain and deport a single illegal immigrant, according to DHS.
I will continue fighting every day alongside President Donald Trump to secure our border and keep American communities safe. This is just the beginning of the Golden Age of America.https://t.co/6P4shHFdGW
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) April 30, 2025
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said that “self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way” for illegal immigrants to avoid arrest by ICE.
“Download the CBP Home App TODAY and self-deport,” said Rep. Noem.
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‘AFRAID OF THE CARTELS’: TRUMP SLAMS MEXICO LEADER
President Trump confirmed over the weekend that he volunteered to dispatch US troops to Mexico to combat brutal drug cartels, only to be rebuffed by his counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum.
Sheinbaum, 62, had publicly claimed that she turned down an offer from Mr Trump to send American soldiers into her country to assist in efforts to crack down on the deadly drug gangs.
“It’s true,” Mr Trump, 78, told reporters aboard Air Force One Sunday night while en route to Washington from Florida.
“They [the cartels] are horrible people that have been killing people left and right ... they’ve made a fortune on selling drugs and destroying our people.”
“They are bad news,” he added. “If Mexico wanted help with the cartels, we would be honoured to go in and do it. I told her that. I would be honoured to go in and do it. The cartels are trying to destroy our country. They’re evil.”
The US saw at least 87,000 drug overdose deaths between October 2023 and September 2024, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
There were about 57,997 fentanyl-related deaths between September 2023 to August 2024, per the CDC.
Sheinbaum confirmed she had turned down Mr Trump’s offer to assist with the cartel crisis while speaking at a university in Mexico.
“And do you know what I told him? No, President Trump,” Sheinbaum recounted. “The territory cannot be violated. Sovereignty cannot be sold. Sovereignty is cherished and defended.”
“It’s not necessary. We can collaborate. We can work together,” Sheinbaum went on. “We can share information, but we will never accept the presence of the United States’ army in our territory.”
TRUMP TO BAN RISKY RESEARCH THAT ‘LED TO PANDEMIC’
President Trump will sign an executive order Monday to ban all federal funding of risky gain-of-function research in China, Iran and other countries without proper oversight of the experiments — more than five years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic that US intel agencies have since said most likely resulted from a lab accident.
The order will yank funding from “any present and all future” gain-of-function research as well as deputize the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other agencies to identify biological research harmful to public health or threatening to national security.
“These measures will drastically reduce the potential for lab-related incidents involving gain-of-function research, like that conducted on bat coronaviruses in China by the EcoHealth Alliance and Wuhan Institute of Virology,” according to a White House fact sheet reviewed by The Post.
All research with infectious pathogens and toxins will be paused until the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and national security adviser develop a new policy with enforcement and reporting requirements.
TIKTOK DEADLINE TO BE EXTENDED
President Donald Trump vowed to extend the deadline for the “TikTok ban” until a deal is struck to sell the Chinese-owned social media app to a US owner, saying in an interview on Sunday that he has a “warm spot” in his heart for it.
“I’d like to see it done, I have a little sweet spot in my heart because I won young people by 36 points … and I focused on TikTok,” Mr Trump told NBC Meet the Press host Kristen Welker.
President Biden signed the so-called “TikTok” ban into law in April 2024.
The law stipulated that unless CCP-linked parent company ByteDance divests from the app and sells its stake to a US owner or company TikTok would be outlawed in the United States as of January 19, 2025.
Mr Trump extended the ban by 75 days via executive order on his first day in office, and recently extended the ban another 75 days in April.
“Perhaps I shouldn’t say this, but I have a little warm spot in my heart for TikTok,” Mr Trump said.
- With the New York Post
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