WASHINGTON — President Trump proposed Tuesday that unlawful migrants who self-deport would get precedence consideration for authorized standing in the event that they nonetheless need to stay within the US — even saying the federal government would supply them a aircraft ticket and money to hurry the method alongside.
“We’re going to give them a stipend,” Trump, 78, instructed Fox Noticias host Rachel Campos-Duffy in an interview aired Tuesday.
“We’re going to give them some money and a plane ticket, and then we’re going to work with them,” he added. “If they’re good, if we want them back in, we’re going to work with them to get them back in as quickly as we can.”
Trump insisted that the administration’s precedence remains to be deporting migrant criminals — not those that merely crossed the border illegally.
“We want our great people to stay,” he mentioned in response to a query from Campos-Duffy about an unlawful migrant who had been within the US for 20 years and constructed a household.
“One of the things I am doing, though, is I’m also making it easier on the farmers and the hotels and everything, because you have a lot of farmers that they’re not going to be able to, you know, do their crops and pick up the corn and do all of the things that they do so incredibly well,” Trump mentioned about having migrants come again into the US.
If unlawful migrants select to make use of the administration’s CBP app to self-deport, they’ve a greater shot at coming again to the US legally, Trump vowed.
“Ultimately, at some point we want the people to go out [and] come back as, as legal. You know, we’re going to send, as you probably know, we’re doing a self-deportation and we’re going to make it comfortable for people, and we’re going to work with those people to come back into our country legally.”
The Division of Homeland Safety retooled former President Joe Biden’s CBP One app final month to allow migrants to announce their self-deportations — as a substitute of permitting them to come back to the US via a authorized pathway on their cellphones.
The app was used to confess 936,500 individuals between January 2023 and December 2024, in line with DHS knowledge.
The practically a million migrants have been issued a warning final week to self-deport “immediately.”
“Formal termination notices have been issued, and affected aliens are urged to voluntarily self-deport using the CBP Home App. Those who refuse will be found, removed, and permanently barred from reentry,” a DHS spokesperson instructed The Put up on the time.
