Washington (Reuters)-The Trump administration will allocate a sum of $ 1,000 as well as a travel aid to migrants which consent to “self-express” of the United States, the Department of Internal Security (DHS) announced on Monday.
This allowance, as well as the potential management of the plane ticket for migrants who voluntarily leave the country, would cost less than a constrained expulsion, according to the agency.
The average cost to stop, hold and expel a person in an irregular situation currently amounts to some $ 17,000, according to the DHS.
Since January 20, the date of the inauguration of President Donald Trump, the US administration expulsion of 152,000 people, according to the DHS, a figure below the 195,000 evictions recorded between February and April of the previous year under Biden.
“If you are illegally here, self-expulsion is the safest, most effective and least costly way to leave the United States and avoid arrest,” said internal security secretary Kristi Noem in a statement.
In March, an application renamed CBP Home was launched to facilitate these departures. The administration suggests that leaving voluntarily could help to return legally, without specifying a concrete program.
“If they are good, if we want to bring them back, we will work with them to reintegrate them as quickly as possible,” said Donald Trump in April.
(Report by Ted Hesson; French version Noémie Naudin)
