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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump administration sends 68 immigrants back to Honduras and Colombia on first self-deportation flight
The Trump administration has orchestrated the first repatriation flight of migrants it claims were part of a group of 68 voluntary deportations. The migrants were sent back to Colombia and Honduras on Monday on the first self-deportation flight funded by the government. Thirty-eight Hondurans, including 19 children, were sent to San Pedro Sula in northern Honduras after they were handed $1,000 debit cards from the U.S. government and the offer to apply for legal entry into the U.S. in the future. President Donald Trump promised on the campaign trail to conduct 'mass deportations' during his second stint in the White House. Experts believe that the offer to self-deport won't encounter high demand and is only set to attract a small number of migrants already thinking about going back. The offer to self-deport comes as the government has also conducted high-profile migrant detentions in the U.S. and as it has flown hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to a top-security prison facility in El Salvador. Kevin Antonio Posadas, from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa, had lived in Houston for three years and had already thought about returning to Honduras when the Trump administration revealed its new self deportation offering. 'I wanted to see my family and my mom,' he said, noting how easy the process was. 'You just apply (through the CBP Home app) and in three days you've got it,' he added. The flight departed Houston early on Monday. 'It's good because you save the cost of the flight if you have the intention of leaving,' he said. Posadas added that he hadn't been worried about deportation, and while he had enjoyed living in the U.S., he had been considering leaving for some time. He said he would eventually think about taking up the offer for those who choose to leave of their own volition to apply to enter the U.S. legally. Announcing the Monday flight, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement that 'If you are here illegally, use the CBP Home App to take control of your departure and receive financial support to return home. If you don't, you will be subjected to fines, arrest, deportation, and will never be allowed to return.' The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement that a further 26 migrants on the flight were being taken to Colombia. Antonio Garcia, the Honduran deputy foreign minister, said the government would give the returning migrants $100 in cash and a $200 credit at a government-run store that sells basic goods. He added that four of the children arriving in Honduras on Monday had been born in the U.S. Garcia met the arriving migrants at the airport and said they had told him that being undocumented in the U.S. had grown increasingly challenging, and that the situation was becoming more hostile. They were concerned about going to work. Wilson Paz, the Honduran immigration director, said that fewer Hondurans have been sent back so far compared to last year, noting that 13,500 have been deported this year, compared to more than 15,000 by the same time the previous year. 'I don't think it will be thousands of people who apply for the program,' said Paz. 'Our responsibility is that they come in an orderly fashion, and we support them.' The Associated Press contributed to this report
Gulf Insider
06-05-2025
- Politics
- Gulf Insider
Trump Admin Says It Will Pay Illegal Immigrants $1,000 To Self-Deport
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that illegal immigrants who use the CBP Home app to initiate their own deportation procedures will receive a $1,000 bonus stipend. In a statement on Monday, the agency said illegal aliens will 'receive both financial and travel assistance to facilitate travel back to their home country through the CBP Home App' and that those individuals who aren't authorized to be in the United States will get the $1,000 stipend 'after their return to their home country has been confirmed through the app.' Trump administration officials have said that using the government's self-deportation process is likely the best way for illegal immigrants to remove themselves to avoid being targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. Click here to read more…
Epoch Times
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Epoch Times
Trump Admin Says It Will Pay Illegal Immigrants $1,000 to Self-Deport
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that illegal immigrants who use the CBP Home app to initiate their own deportation procedures will receive a $1,000 bonus stipend. In a Trump administration officials have said that using the government's self-deportation process is likely the best way for illegal immigrants to remove themselves to avoid being targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials. 'If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest,' DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in the statement. 'DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App. This is the safest option for our law enforcement, aliens and is a 70 percent savings for US taxpayers. Download the CBP Home App TODAY and self-deport.' On the day he took office on Jan. 20, President Donald Trump moved to close down the Biden administration's CBP One app, which had been used by migrants in Mexico to schedule appointments at designated U.S. ports of entry. Upon CBP One's cancellation, migrants could no longer schedule appointments, and tens of thousands of border appointments were scrapped. Related Stories 5/5/2025 5/5/2025 More than 900,000 people entered the country on immigration parole under CBP One, generally for two years, starting in January 2023. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has repeatedly urged people who are in the country illegally to leave. Last month, the president told Fox Noticias that while his administration is focused on removing violent criminals from the United States, he wants to provide a more robust 'self-deportation program.' At the time, Trump signaled that DHS would provide those individuals with a stipend of some kind. 'We're going to give them a stipend,' Trump said in mid-April. '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, we're going to work with them to get them back in as quickly as we can.' The president also said he wants to help hotels and farms get the workers they need and recommend people to fill needed positions. 'We're doing a self-deportation and we're going to make it comfortable for people,' Trump said. 'And we're going to work with those people to come back into our country legally.' During his campaign and in the first months of his administration, Trump has made immigration enforcement and bolstering border security a centerpiece of his agenda. But some of his policy initiatives and executive orders around deportations have been stymied in court. The high court, in a brief order issued in April, directed the government not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Texas 'until further order of this court.' In a separate case, the Supreme Court also ordered the administration to facilitate the return of a Salvadoran illegal immigrant and accused MS-13 gang member, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador earlier this year. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
