“We make it as easy as possible to leave the country as easy as possible,” Trump continued in the video. Every illegal immigrant can “simply report to an airport and receive a free flight from our country”. This could also be booked directly via a cell phone app. “As long as it is not here, you can go wherever you want,” said Trump. In addition, illegal immigrants should receive a kind of hand money if they leave the USA permanently.
Those who still stayed in the United States would have to expect sanctions, warned the US President. This includes the “sudden deportation, to a place and in a way that is at our sole discretion”. In addition, “considerable imprisonment, enormous fines, the confiscation of the entire has and the attachment of all wages”.
The US government announced at the beginning of the week to pay illegal immigrants in the USA $ 1,000 (883 euros) and to take over their travel expenses if they voluntarily return to their home country. “We will pay each of them a certain amount of money and get them a nice flight back to their home country,” Trump said in front of journalists in the White House on Monday.
According to the US Department of Homeland Protection, the average costs for the arrest, detention and deportation of an illegal migrant in the USA amount to $ 17,121. With the help of the “self -shifting”, the costs could be “reduced around 70 percent” – despite taking over the travel expenses and the hand money ..
In the election campaign, Trump had announced a tough course against irregular immigration and promised the largest deportation campaign in US history. His approach is highly controversial and increasingly encounters legal resistance.
