The Department of Homeland Security will announce on Monday that it will begin paying for commercial flights for self-deporting illegal aliens from the United States. They will also pay the aliens $1,000 once they are confirmed to have left the country, according to Fox News.
The DHS says that this will save taxpayers “70%, as it currently costs DHS, on average, over $17,000 to arrest, detain, and deport someone from the U.S., while paying for self-removal flights & the stipend is projected to cost just $4,500, and will be safer for ICE and preserve their resources," per Fox News' Bill Melugin.
FOX EXCLUSIVE: DHS will announce today that they will begin paying for the commercial flights of illegal aliens who self-deport from the U.S., & they will pay these aliens an additional $1,000 once they are confirmed to have left the country. DHS tells @FoxNews this will save…
— Bill Melugin (@BillMelugin_) May 5, 2025
