ICE Says ‘Adiós!’ $3K Exit Bonus Beats Courtroom Chaos

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It's so nice to have you with us on the
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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 1 (00:53):
They have to do it by the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
So why are liberals so angry about the new offer
from our government.

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Story number one.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Liberals 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

(03:38):
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

(04:01):
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,

(04:23):
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

(04:46):
should take advantage of the gift and self deport because
if they don't, we will find them, we will.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Arrest them, and they will never return.

Speaker 2 (04:55):
Now, 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 1 (05:10):
He said that he.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
Doesn'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 4 (05:30):
Right.

Speaker 2 (05:30):
The 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

(05:51):
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

(06:11):
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

(06:32):
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

(06:55):
to Guatemala.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
It's affecting their.

Speaker 3 (06:59):
Chill 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,

(07:22):
two percent more than what was projected.

Speaker 6 (07:25):
The projection for this year was off by a significant margin,
and that margin is absolutely associated with federal immigration actions
in our community.

Speaker 4 (07:38):
For 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 6 (07:50):
The 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 3 (08:05):
When 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 2 (08:28):
Again, 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

(08:49):
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 1 (09:11):
You have the crazies out there.

Speaker 2 (09:12):
One 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

(09:35):
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

(09:57):
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.

(10:21):
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

(10:47):
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,

(11:12):
even more paperwork.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Then lawyers get involved.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
If 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

(11:38):
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

(12:01):
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 1 (12:14):
People are very, very very frustrated by this. Right.

Speaker 2 (12:20):
They'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

(12:40):
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

(13:01):
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 1 (13:09):
Ones that we're willing to look at when we come back.

Speaker 2 (13:11):
Okay, 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

(13:32):
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

(13:54):
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

(14:16):
one stimulus of Mexico's economy has been illegal immigrants sending
money back to Mexico.

Speaker 1 (14:22):
It is outpaced oil production. So think about that.

Speaker 2 (14:26):
If 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.

(14:47):
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

(15:08):
to get out of.

Speaker 1 (15:08):
Here, like, that's just money well spent.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
It's a lot cheaper than going after them, having to
find them, dealing with all the deportations.

Speaker 1 (15:16):
Like it is that that is a hard thing to do.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
It 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 1 (15:31):
Right.

Speaker 2 (15:32):
It'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

(15:54):
register and arrange their departure using the Home the Home
smartphone app.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
There's a part by deadline.

Speaker 2 (16:01):
The 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

(16:21):
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 1 (16:32):
The payment of.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
The 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

(16:56):
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

(17:19):
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 1 (17:28):
Then bam, you get it.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
And 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

(17:50):
get it.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
I love that.

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