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Again, this report I just played for you is exactly the best public relations campaign the Trump administration could have ever asked for. You can leave now. We will give you a $3,000 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. You have the crazies out there. One of them said, quote, I feel like the system isn't broken, it's working against us. A young American with $10 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 basic necessities wiped out of every paycheck. Why? 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, and 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 $3,000 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 going to find you, we're going to come after you, and, 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, 48 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 than lawyers get involved. If we catch someone at the Home Depot parking lot, the 2000 or $3000 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, as they described it. And they said, if you could take tomorrow a million people and give them all 3,000 hours, 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 it 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, something really important that people need to understand. And so that's another part of the frustrating aspect of this. People are very, very, very frustrated by this. Right? They're frustrated that, that the math is just so much cheaper if we do it this way. Are you rewarding bad behavior? Is. Is how I asked the question, like, well, but aren't we rewarding. They're like, look, if, if this is a revolving door, this would be a bad proposition, right? Like, we wouldn't advocate for this 3,000 under the Biden administration because a lot of people just go back to their family. You're paying for their trip back, and then they're coming, right? They're sitting 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 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 in the good graces to leave early are the ones that we're willing to look at when we come back. Okay, so, like, when they were 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 incentive of the three grand, it drops back down to a thousand, but at some point, you're going to get caught. As Kristi Noem described it, we've seen a lot of people get caught, and then you get nothing. So there is a, there's, 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 out, 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 3000 to get rid of someone who's taking up a home or an apartment and their money's not staying in America's economy is a no brainer. It's not just the tax dollars, it's the cash. The number one stimulus in Mexico's economy has been illegal immigrants sending money back to Mexico. It is outpaced oil production. So like, think about that. If you can have that amount of money stay in America, what does that do for our economy? Because the majority of illegal 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 $3,000 bonus. I would say, why not? Like this is if we can get rid of a couple hundred thousand illegal immigrants by, by paying them three grand to get out of here. Like that's just money well spent. It's a lot cheaper than going after them, having to find them, dealing with all the deportations like it is, that is a hard thing to do. It takes money, it takes time, and everybody knows it. It's a lot of cash. It's described as a $3,000 exit bonus. Right. It's part of the voluntary self deportation program. References Project Homecoming. Now here's the eligibility requirements because I asked for this, so 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'd be an illegal immigration. You have to have registration through the Department of Homeland Security app. Individuals must register and arrange their departure using the home, the home smartphone app. There's a depart by deadline. The bonus would apply only if the individual voluntarily exits the country by December 31st. So you got to go fast. The free travel provided, they say DHS will arrange 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. The payment, the flight are usually processed after departure is completed. All right, so there's a check and balance there with that. Some previous participants criticized delays or problems with receiving earlier versions of the payments because they wanted the money like immediately, like instant gratification or up front. 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 those forcibly removed through deportation typically face longer bans on reentry than people who leave voluntarily. And they said this $3000 bonus is not a general everyone gets 3000 to leave the country. It's temporary for the illegal immigrants to voluntarily exit. And they said 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, then bam, you get it. 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, 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 can get them. I love that. Thank you for listening to the 47 Morning Update with Ben Ferguson. Please make sure you hit subscribe wherever you're listening to this podcast right now. And for more in depth news, also subscribe to the Ben Ferguson podcast and we will see you back here tomorrow.
