Trump suggests illegal migrants could get money to self-deport and come back legally

WASHINGTON — President Trump projected Tuesday that illegal migrants who self-deport would get precedence information for ineligible presumption if they inactive privation to unrecorded successful the US — adjacent saying the authorities would supply them a level summons and currency to velocity the process along.

“We’re going to springiness them a stipend,” Trump, 78, told Fox Noticias big Rachel Campos-Duffy successful an interrogation aired Tuesday.

“We’re going to springiness them immoderate wealth and a level ticket, and past we’re going to enactment with them,” helium added. “If they’re good, if we privation them backmost in, we’re going to enactment with them to get them backmost successful arsenic rapidly arsenic we can.”

Trump insisted that the administration’s precedence is inactive deporting migrant criminals — not those who simply crossed the borderline illegally.

“We privation our large radical to stay,” helium said successful effect to a question from Campos-Duffy astir an amerciable migrant who had been successful the US for 20 years and built a family.

Trump said helium would springiness migrants a formation location and wealth — if they near the US. REUTERS

“One of the things I americium doing, though, is I’m besides making it easier connected the farmers and the hotels and everything, due to the fact that you person a batch of farmers that they’re not going to beryllium capable to, you know, bash their crops and prime up the maize and bash each of the things that they bash truthful incredibly well,” Trump said astir having migrants travel backmost into the US.

If amerciable migrants take to usage the administration’s CBP app to self-deport, they person a amended changeable astatine coming backmost to the US legally, Trump vowed.

“Ultimately, astatine immoderate constituent we privation the radical to spell retired [and] travel backmost as, arsenic legal. You know, we’re going to send, arsenic you astir apt know, we’re doing a self-deportation and we’re going to marque it comfy for people, and we’re going to enactment with those radical to travel backmost into our state legally.”

Farm workers labour successful the fields southbound of Bakersfield, successful Kern County, California’s breadbasket, connected April 9, 2025. AFP via Getty Images

The Department of Homeland Security retooled erstwhile President Joe Biden’s CBP One app past period to alteration migrants to denote their self-deportations — alternatively of allowing them to travel to the US done a ineligible pathway connected their cellphones.

The app was utilized to admit 936,500 radical betwixt January 2023 and December 2024, according to DHS data.

The astir 1 cardinal migrants were issued a informing past week to self-deport “immediately.”

“Formal termination notices person been issued, and affected aliens are urged to voluntarily self-deport utilizing the CBP Home App. Those who garbage volition beryllium found, removed, and permanently barred from reentry,” a DHS spokesperson told The Post astatine the time.