The United States will pay illegal migrants $ 3 thousand for self-deportation before the New Year

The US administration will increase payments to up to $3,000 to illegal migrants who voluntarily agree to leave the country before the New Year. This was stated on December 22 by the Minister of Homeland Security, Christie Noem, her words are quoted on the official website of the department.

The report says that since January 2025, 1.9 million illegal immigrants have been voluntarily deported and tens of thousands have benefited from the exit assistance program. According to her, "this Christmas season, American taxpayers have generously tripled the incentive for illegal migrants to leave the country voluntarily," but only until the end of the year.

"Illegal immigrants should take advantage of this gift and deport themselves, because if they don't, we will find them, we will arrest them, and they will never return," the minister said.

Unreliable asylum: the United States may deprive hundreds of thousands of people of refugee status

The checks will affect almost a quarter of a million people who moved to the United States under Joe Biden.

On December 17, US President Donald Trump announced that for the first time in 50 years, there was an outflow of migrants from the country. Trump also added that before he took office as president, 25 million illegal migrants entered the country, including drug traffickers and murderers. He noted that this should not happen again.

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