$1,000 to leave the US? These immigrants find Trump’s offer ‘an insult’

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By Juan Carlos Chavez, Tampa Bay Times The Tribune Content Agency

TAMPA, Fla. – The Trump administration is offering $1,000 to people who choose to leave the country. As part of Project Homecoming, federal officials took CBP One, an app used during President Joe Biden’sadministrationto manage the arrival of more than a million immigrants, and turned it into a tool called CBP Home. Now, it helps people start the voluntary self-deportation process.

Any non-U.S. citizen who uses CBP Home will receive travel assistance and $1,000, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The agency said that immigrants who use CBP Home also will be “deprioritized” for detention and removal by immigration enforcement.

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