The President of the United States has made the fight against illegal immigration one of the priorities of his mandate. He signed a decree on Friday, May 9, to encourage illegal immigrants in the United States from themselves.
Donald Trump, whose massive illegal immigrant expulsion program is thwarted by justice, announced Friday, May 9, having signed a decree to encourage some to “self-express” from the United States by offering them free flights abroad.
“We make the start of foreigners in an irregular situation as much as possible,” said the American president in a shared video on his social social platform.
“Any illegal immigrant can simply come to an airport and receive a free flight outside our country,” he said.
Encouraged to reserve their own airplane flight
The American president explained that the people concerned could also reserve a flight directly via an application on a mobile phone.
-“As long as it’s not here, you can go where you want,” said the republican billionaire.
He warned that those who will remain on American soil will be exposed to “sanctions, in particular to a sudden expulsion, in a place and in a way left at our sole discretion”.
$ 1,000 allocated to immigrants who have left themselves?
His government announced on Monday, May 5, that he was going to allocate a sum of $ 1,000 to immigrants who will go out of their own free will, in addition to covering their transport costs. Donald Trump said that people choosing to follow this path could “perhaps one day” be offered to return to the United States legally.
The Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) had stressed in a statement that this procedure would “allow to lower the costs of an expulsion of around 70%”, while the average cost of the arrest, the detention and the expulsion of an immigrant in an irregular situation in the United States is currently $ 17,121, according to him. He had specified that a person from Honduras had already benefited from this program to return to his country.
Donald Trump erected the fight against illegal immigration in absolute priority of his second term, evoking an “invasion” of the United States by “criminals from abroad” and communicating abundantly on the expulsions of immigrants. But his massive expulsion program has been thwarted or slowed down by multiple court decisions.
