DHS triples cash bonus for app-based self-deportation
The Department of Homeland Security has tripled its "exit bonus" for undocumented immigrants who sign up to self-deport via the CBP Home app—raising the payment from $1,000 to $3,000, including a free flight home, and offering forgiveness of civil fines or penalties for failing to depart. DHS called the year‑end offer the "best gift" and warned that those who do not self‑deport "will be arrested, deported, and they will never be able to return," while claiming that since January 2025 about 1.9 million people have voluntarily self‑deported and tens of thousands have used the CBP Home program.
📌 Key Facts
- DHS has tripled the cash incentive for migrants who sign up for self-deportation to $3,000 (up from $1,000) and is offering a free flight home.
- The program is tied to the CBP Home app; DHS says use of the app qualifies participants for forgiveness of any civil fines or penalties for failing to depart.
- DHS claims that since January 2025 about 1.9 million people have voluntarily self-deported and that tens of thousands have used the CBP Home program.
- In a year-end/holiday press release DHS called the offer the "best gift" illegal aliens can give themselves and warned those who do not self-deport "will be arrested, deported, and they will never be able to return to the United States."
- Secretary Kristi Noem is quoted on the record reiterating the enforcement message: "we will find them, we will arrest them, and they will never return."
📰 Sources (3)
In year-end offer, US triples payment to illegal aliens who sign up for self-deportation
New information:
- Confirms the tripled incentive is specifically $3,000, up from the usual $1,000, and includes a free flight home.
- Clarifies that using the CBP Home app qualifies participants for forgiveness of any civil fines or penalties for failing to depart the country.
- Quotes a DHS press release characterizing the offer as the "best gift" illegal aliens can give themselves during the holiday season and warning that those who do not self-deport "will be arrested, deported, and they will never be able to return to the United States."
- Provides DHS claim that since January 2025, 1.9 million illegal aliens have voluntarily self-deported and that tens of thousands have used the CBP Home program.
- Carries on-the-record quotes from Secretary Kristi Noem reiterating that illegal aliens who do not take the offer "we will find them, we will arrest them, and they will never return."