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International Business Times UK
International Business Times UK
Politics
Jim Manzon

Trump Triples Self-Deportation Bonus to $3,000 as Mass Removal Bill Tops $170B — Who Really Pays?

Armed ICE officers have arrested over 285,000 since January, but deportations fall short of targets. (PHOTOS: New York Times Opinion/YouTube)

The Trump administration has significantly increased its cash incentive for undocumented migrants willing to leave the United States voluntarily, raising the payment from $1,000 (£741) to $2,224 (£2,400), with additional paid travel, according to Bloomberg. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced the move as part of what officials described as a holiday-season effort to accelerate removals before the end of the year.

'Illegal aliens should take advantage of this gift and self-deport because if they don't, we will find them, we will arrest them, and they will never return,' Noem stated, Bloomberg reported.

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