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We've got one major story for you this morning, and it is time is running out for illegal immigrants to take a three thousand dollars bonus to self deport.
Speaker 1They have to do it by the end of the year.
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Speaker 5Story number one.
Speaker 2Liberals freaking out at the idea of giving someone three thousand dollars a holiday stipend for self deportation.
The question all of us should be asking is why would you not be in favor of that.
Democrats claim they're all about right humanity.
They want to make sure that everyone's happy and safe and well taken care of.
You know that the party of actually putting children in cages that was under the Obama administration now treating people like a human being, which is what Democrats have been obsessed with.
Are again angry that we're saying, if you're willing to self deport, we will give you three thousand dollars holidays stipend.
Now, this is running through the end of the year.
It's a brilliant Trump policy, but it's also being sold as a small expense, is far less than the cost of chasing and deporting an illegal immigrant, And it comes amid the growing pressure of the economic issues that migrants.
Illegal immigrants have put on this country, taking jobs away from American citizens, raising the cost of rent for American citizens, and raising the cost of home pricing for American citizens.
The President said it this way during the Christmas season.
The US taxpayer is so generously tripling the incentive to leave voluntarily for those in the country illegally, offering a three thousand dollars exit bonus.
Now you only have to the end of the year.
Christy Nome's saying illegal aliens should take advantage of the gift and self deport because if they don't, we will find them, we will.
Speaker 1Arrest them, and they will never return.
Speaker 2Now, I think this is like one of the most humanitarian things I have ever heard, Right, I think this is amazing.
There was a man that even filmed himself his deporting video at the airport to avoid being picked up by ICE.
Speaker 1He said that he.
Speaker 2Doesn't feel welcome here anymore as an illegal immigrant.
Now he's parked his car, he's got his pillow around his neck, and he's speaking into TikTok.
Speaker 4Right.
Speaker 2The reason why I play this is because this, to me is like the best video that illegal immigrant could ever put out.
Why One, they're basically admitting defeat.
Two they're telling other illegal immigrants don't come here, it's not worth it.
Right, the chance of you getting picked up are very high.
He's doing a p s A that is telling illegal immigrants to stop coming into this country.
That is again another example of just how incredible this is.
ICE putting out this Channel thirteen video self deported or be deported.
The choice is yours, as they described it as a mother, a Columbian mother is self deporting with her kids next week after her husband had already been deported.
And again this is great news because it's a walking billboard.
You got an illegal from Guatemala say she may have to move home with her kids since her husband got deported.
While waiting to work, waiting for work outside of a home depot, another example of self deportations.
Again part of the story.
Listen, This mother wants to be known as Mirabel's.
She's not sure how much longer her six year old will still be playing with these kids here at Esperanza Elementary School.
Mirabel is undocumented and now parenting on her own after her husband was detained while he looked for work outside of home depot.
He's since been deported back to Guatemala.
Speaker 1It's affecting their.
Speaker 3Chill d and Marabel says as she speaks through the tears, the children have fear that makes them not want to go out on the street.
But their one year old daughter was born in the US, and so was their six year old, who's now a first grader.
Year right now, the district's enrollment stands that just over four hundred and nine thousand students.
That's down four percent from last year, two percent more than what was projected.
Speaker 6The projection for this year was off by a significant margin, and that margin is absolutely associated with federal immigration actions in our community.
Speaker 4For every single student, LAUS brings in about twenty thousand dollars in state and federal funds used to pay for variety programs many students use and benefit from.
Speaker 6The loss is as high as one hundred and forty million dollars for a one single year.
If that continues than year after year, then we're talking about a significant impact of the budgets.
Speaker 3When you tell your daughter that you may have to pull her out of the school and move her to Guatemala, what does she tell you?
She doesn't want to leave, Marrabel says, but her daughter may have no choice.
Marabell can't afford to keep living in La much longer, so Esperanza is likely to lose one more student very soon.
Speaker 2Again, this report I just played for you is exactly the best public relations campaign that Trump administration could have ever asked for.
You can leave now.
We will give you a three thousand dollars bonus.
You can have a chance to come back legally and do it the right way, and if you don't, we will hunt you down.
We will find you, and you will be gone now.
The departure of economic migrants is also pressuring uncaring elites in the business.
They say politics and government to help discarded Americans return to work, health, and prosperity this new report says, which again makes me laugh.
Speaker 1You have the crazies out there.
Speaker 2One of them said, quote, I feel like the system isn't broken, it's working against us.
A young American with ten dollars left, shares a home with four roommates, lives off granola bars, drives a car she can't afford to fix, and watches rent bills and basing necesses wiped out of every paycheck.
Wlin, Well, guess what when you are supporting people that are allowing for illegal immigrants to come into this country and take your jobs and drive up the price of housing and rent, this is what you get, which goes back to the question that I ask everyone, is it the best money we can spend?
And showing compassion for illegal immigrants at the same time humanizing them.
Democrats have said that Republicans will never do by giving them three thousand dollars to self deport.
This is, by the way, I believe a incentive based program.
Donald Trump understands incentive based programs and how powerful they can be, while also warning you that if you don't take this sweetheart deal, you've broken our laws and we're willing to fly you home and give you a bonus to do it.
But if you don't do it right, this is important.
If you don't do it, what's going to happen?
Well, unfortunately, we're going to hunt you down, We're gonna find you, We're going to come after you, and you are going to lose.
You will be deported and never allowed back in that right, there is exactly, I mean exactly what I voted for.
And I was talking to some ICE agents gosh, forty eight hours ago and when this was becoming a thing, and I was like, all right, explain to me why I should be in favor of this or against it, And they all unanimously said, you don't understand the amount of time resources, court appearances, documentation, fingerprinting, processing, even more paperwork.
Speaker 1Then lawyers get involved.
Speaker 2If if we catch someone at the home depot parking lot, the two thousand or three thousand dollars is a steal compared to what we pay while we hold them while we go through the process and then we deport them.
It is also when we deport them, right, we're paying for that deportation flight.
This is cheaper than that is they described it, and they said, if you could take tomorrow a million people and give them all three thousand dollars.
It would be so much cheaper than what it would cost to deport a million people.
And ultimately, if you're deporting these people and then the people who are taking their place are keeping their money in America in our systems as sending the majority of back home via Western Union to whatever country they came from, because the majority of legal immigrants do not keep their money in this country.
That's also I think the thing really important that people need to understand.
And so that's another part of the frustrating aspect of this.
Speaker 1People are very, very very frustrated by this.
Right.
Speaker 2They're frustrated that the math is just so much cheaper if we do it this way.
Are you rewarding bad behavior?
Is how I asked the question.
Well, but aren't we rewarding?
They're like, look, if this is a revolving door, this would be a bad proposition, right, Like, we wouldn't advocate for this three thousand under the Biden administration because a lot of people just go back to see their family.
You're paying for their trip back and then they're coming right, they're seeing right back in America.
Well, we've locked down the border, like the illegal immigrants are not coming across the border.
We have locked it down because of the leadership of Donald Trump.
So they described it as now it's worth it to do it because you're getting a great bang for your buck.
The other part is you're only doing this through the end of the year.
It's also, they said, a psychological thing.
Those who go to the front of the line and the good graces to leave early are the.
Speaker 1Ones that we're willing to look at when we come back.
Speaker 2Okay, So like when we're going through the process of seeing who may get to come into this country, if you wait too long, not only do you lose the instead of the three grand, it drops back down to a thousand.
But at some point you're going to get caught, as Christynome described it.
And we've seen a lot of people get caught and then you get nothing.
So there is a there's a lot here, you understand, like, there's an awful lot of X factors here, And I think that's the important part when you're dealing with deportation and you're dealing with with time, paperwork, and part of this is it frees up for us to go after the hard criminals and the worst among us.
If we have millions of people that are self deporting who may not be the hard criminals, that's another like massive perk.
This is the fastest way to get people out, and then the dollars they were making are now going to Americans, and those dollars are staying in America in our economy, like three thousand.
To get rid of someone who's taking up a home or an apartment and their money is not staying in America's economy is a no brainer.
It's not just a tax dollars, it's the cash.
The number one stimulus of Mexico's economy has been illegal immigrants sending money back to Mexico.
Speaker 1It is outpaced oil production.
So think about that.
Speaker 2If you can have that amount of money stay in America, what does that do for our economy?
Because the majority of legal immigrants that stay here, they do not keep all their money here.
They send it home.
It's a problem, man, Like, it's a huge problem.
And I hate that we're having to spend any money at all, but I know that we have to spend money to get rid of illegal immigrants.
And if we're going out there to track them down, then it's a really big problem, and it costs a lot to do it.
Incentivizing people to self deport with a three thousand dollars bonus, I would say why not?
Like this is if we can get rid of a couple hundred thousand illegal immigrants by paying them three grand to get out of.
Speaker 1Here, like, that's just money well spent.
Speaker 2It's a lot cheaper than going after them, having to find them, dealing with all the deportations.
Speaker 1Like it is that that is a hard thing to do.
Speaker 2It takes money, it takes time, and everybody knows it.
It's a lot of cash.
It's described as a three thousand dollars exit bonus.
Speaker 1Right.
Speaker 2It's part of the voluntary self deportation program references Project Homecoming.
Now here's the eligibility requirements.
Because I asked for this, I'm going to go through them.
So you understand, only undocumented immigrants people in the US without lawful immigration status are eligible.
So that being illegal immigration, you have to have registration through the Department hid Security app.
Individuals much register and arrange their departure using the Home the Home smartphone app.
Speaker 1There's a part by deadline.
Speaker 2The bonus would apply only if the individual voluntarily exits the country by December thirty first, so you got to go fast.
The free travel provided, they say, the DHS wire arranged to pay for transportation flight for the person's home country as part of the offer as well.
Then there are waivers of fines and penalties, so this is the incentivizing part.
Okay, Participants quote may be eligible for forgiveness of certain civil fines or penalties tied to their unlawful presence if they voluntarily depart using the program.
Speaker 1The payment of.
Speaker 2The flight are usually processed after departure is completed, all right, so there's a check and balance there with that.
Some previous participants criticize delays or problems with receiving earlier versions of the payments because they won the money like immediately, like instagratification are upfront.
They're not doing this now.
The consequences are the incentive as well.
DHS has said those who do not leave voluntarily could face enforcement actions, including arrest and formal deportation under immigration laws.
They say that it's fortunately removed three deportation typically face longer bands on reentry than people who leave voluntarily, and they said this three thousand dollars bonus is not a general, everyone gets three thousand to leave the country.
It's temporary for the illegal immigrants to voluntarily exit, and they say it's tied to self deportation.
So if you're willing to do it yourself, do it now, get out of the country by the end of the month.
Speaker 1Then bam, you get it.
Speaker 2And they said, look, if you want to walk or talk through this, you can literally go on the CBP app about the self deportation process and go step by step like they're trying to make this as easy as possible to leave, but you must leave by the end of the year.
That's part of where they're like, let's see how many we can get as fast as we get it.
Speaker 1I love that.
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