The administration of the American president Donald Trump said on Monday that he would pay illegal immigrants $ 1,000 (€ 880) to return voluntarily to their country of origin, at the next apparent stage of his plans to solve the problem.
The Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) said in a press release that it would also pay for travel assistance and that people who use an application called CBP Home to tell the government that they planned to return home would be “prioritized” for detention and withdrawal by the application of immigration.
“If you are illegally here, self-empowerment is the best, safest and most profitable means of leaving the United States to avoid arrest,” said Kristi Noem, Secretary of Security of Security.
“DHS now offers financial financial assistance on illegal extraterrestrials and an allowance to return to their country of origin via the Home CBP application,” she added
The application is a revised version of that previously used by the Biden administration to allow nearly a million migrants to plan meetings to legitimately enter the country.
The DHS said that he had already paid a plane ticket to get home in Honduras in Chicago, adding that more tickets have been reserved this week and next.
Self-proceedings as self-protection
The Trump administration has often sought to portray self-support as a means for people currently in the country without legal status to ensure that they can return to the United States on a future date.
Addressing journalists on Monday, the Trump himself said that immigrants who “self-conforming” and leave the United States could have a chance to return legally “if they are good people” and “love our country”.
“And if they are not, they won't,” he said.
However, immigrant rights organizations have urged caution.
According to Aaron Reichlen -Melnick, a principal researcher at American Immigration Council, he is often worse for undocumented persons – in particular those who are already in dismissal procedures – to leave the country rather than fighting their affairs before the immigration court.
Reichlen-Melnick warned that migrants in the procedures of referral which do not present themselves at the risk of justice automatically receiving an expulsion order.
He explained that leaving the country generally counts as the abandonment of a request for relief or an asylum application, adding that the DHS has indicated no close coordination with the courts to ensure that people who leave the United States do not face any repercussion.
Indeed, the Trump administration has coupled its self-supporting push with television advertisements threatening actions against people illegally living in the United States, accompanied by publications on social networks which show arrests and migrants in application of immigration sent to a Salvador prison for difficult conditions.
Mass deportation problems
Trump made the mass expulsion of immigrants a centerpiece of his presidential campaign, but the effort remains expensive and at high intensity of resources.
ADVERTISEMENTIts administration asked the congress a massive increase in resources for the immigration and customs application agency, which is responsible for the apprehension of targeted people for the withdrawal of the country.
According to the Ministry of Internal Security, it costs $ 17,121 (€ 15,104) to stop, hold and remove someone from the United States.
Self-proof was considered attractive by the Trump administration because it does not require vast government negotiations to government to ensure that a country brings its citizens. But a number of countries refuse to bring citizens who have returned by US officials of the application of immigration or make this process difficult
A 2011 study of the Migration Policy Institute and the European University Institute revealed that there were around 128 similar programs – often called “Pay -to -Go” programs – worldwide.
ADVERTISEMENTBut the study also revealed that a few exceptions, such as a program to return people in the 1990s, from Germany to Bosnia, these voluntary yield programs have generally not encouraged a large number of people to return home.
It is not clear if these programs have led to migrants who have taken the payments that really remain in their country of origin and not trying to emigrate again.
