President Donald Trump plans to sign on Friday an incentive for immigrants in the United States illegally leave the country voluntarily, a White House authority said.
The “Project Homecoming” initiative will encourage migrants to “self -feed” with federal government assistance and financial support, or face law enforcement and penalties, according to the source.
Trump, a Republican, took office in January promising to deport millions of people, but so far has been behind the deportations of his predecessor Democrat Joe Biden. The Biden government faced high levels of illegal immigration and quickly returned many of those who caught crossing the border, increasing the number of deportations.
The Trump administration tried to encourage migrants to go out voluntarily, threatening heavy fines, trying to remove legal status and deporting migrants for prisons in Guantanamo Bay and El Salvador.
The internal security department said on Monday that it would offer a $ 1,000 scholarship and travel assistance to migrants who decided to leave the country voluntarily.
A draft of Trump’s initiative predicts that he will direct a flow of aggressive and large -scale deportation, including an additional 20,000 police officers ”to immigrants in the country illegally refused to leave.
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It was unclear which police the Trump government would use for the supplementary force.
