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So we the people are giving them (allegedly) $1000 instead of the multiple thousands that they could have produced for the economy. Sounds like that will definitely make us greater. 🤦
They won’t be getting a 1000 dollars, but they will get a free flight to the nearest concentration camp. It’s a trap.
I’m not sure about this actually. The administration is obsessed with cutting costs even by illegal means. So this may actually be followed it is cheaper than detaining people.
Definitely sounds like a trap.
(What follows is a slightly unrelated anecdote.) I knew a guy who was a tax preparer back in 2009 when Obama put out the “Making Work Pay” stimulus. You basically got a tax refund of like $400 per person if you met a pretty lenient criteria.
Well, my buddy told me that during the 2009 tax season, he would constantly have people coming into his office trying to file taxes, but they hadn’t filed in a few years. After hours of getting their paperwork together and running through the tax schedules for each year, the tax payer would find out that they owed thousands of dollars in back payments. Rather than file their taxes and paying the delinquent taxes, they would just say “yeah, all I wanted was the $400” and just walk out.
I’m sure the IRS cleaned up that year if anyone who owed was bold enough to actually file.
Prizes, you say?
To shreds you say?
How’s his wife holding up?
To shreds you say?
“You may be eligible …”
Yap it’s a honeypot.
I mean if this was a legit thing and someone wanted to leave but didn’t have the financial means then this is good, but most likely anyone who uses this will just get raided by ICE and thrown in prison instead of what it says, because that’s exactly how low and pathetic people are
Am I able to fly to the US for like a vacation to Vegas, then self-deport and take home a grand?
I’m wondering if citizens will start self deporting.
even for this sign for non USA citizens they aren’t willing to budge on putting a non-english language
it’s because the point is to both intimidate victims and also get nazis horny.
Based on my experience, “those people” actually believe(d) that the US government is literally paying every person south of the border vast sums of money to come live here. If I had a dollar for every variation of “if you’re broke, travel to Mexico and cross the border back into the USA, they’ll give you a free debit card” I’d literally be able to afford to fly to Mexico, cross back over into the USA, and then be disappointed that nobody’s getting those magical debit cards conservatives are convinced are being handed out like candy. And I’m brown enough I’m sure I could be confused as being “Mexican”.
My parents believe that democrats are giving “illegal” immigrants welfare.
We are a family of legal documented immigrants, there were barely any benefits for us (especially not the first 5 years), and anything that you could get is means tested and you need all your legal documents ready. Like wtf how do you expect undocumented immigrants of getting any welfare, wtf.
(No they do not watch fox news, its some news account thing that they follow on WeChat.)
The right-wing media ecosystems the US has for each immigrant community is so bizarre.
To what extend do you think it’s rich immigrants sharinging petty bourgeois brainworms with other immigrants whose class position makes them exceptionally fertile for brainworms or literally just the state department amplifying and funding those voices?
And I’m brown enough I’m sure I could be confused as being “Mexican”.
I have two half-Thai, half-white cousins. One of them looks vaguely Mexican / Latin American and the other looks Japanese, and they got lots of shit for that growing up in Florida. Fortunately, that experience really taught them to respect and value immigrants and non-white people.
Just kidding – they’re actually hard-core white-supremacists and trumpers. The only reason trump isn’t their favorite person of all time is that they like DeSantis even better.
Floridians love of DeSantis is extremely baffling. It really makes me struggle to care when they get hit with hurricanes and shit
So while it sounds like a trap, this might also be real. It allows deportation without due process. This exact thing happened during Dwight D Eisenhower’s presidency to the letter, bonuses and everything. It’s much cheaper and easier to bulk deport if you can convince them to leave by themselves and by making life hell. Extra History JUST put out a video about the Eisenhower thing on September 1.
While I’m not 100% on it being a trap, we’re in an unprecedented “the cruelty is the point” era that we’ve never really faced before. If someone I knew was considering calling the line, I would do everything I could to prevent them from trying it.
“may be elegible” I wonder what happens if you aren’t….
ICE will continue to prioritize your removal
Well that’s not bleak at all…
I’m Canadian. I’m going to get this app and try to get paid.
Do you have enough melanin to be eligible though ?
Theoretically it shouldn’t matter if I’m “in the country” illegally
Then you can’t just drive in, you need to sneak in.
- purchase a burner
- install VPN
- install Geo spoofer
- register all Republicans in office
Is this exploitable? Lowkey wanna buy a cheap spare android and see about that free money 👀
Free airfare to the vacation destination of your choice. Don’t forget your passport.
I thought buy a one way ticket to the us, a few weeks of fun, self deport.
I think you cannot buy or board a one way ticket if you are not a US citizen
Book two one-ways, cancel the departing 1-way within 24 hours, after you have your confirmation documents. That’s what I did for China, I can’t imagine the US actually looks up the current passenger list either.
Eh I don’t know about that. Airlines selling passenger manifest data to governments and other entities is a legit revenue stream.
Why?
Trump would rather give 1000$ to immigrants than American citizens. Not what I voted for.
/s
Genuine question as a European, is this real?
Go to the website and find out
Holy shit.
It’s shocking to see it as a US citizen too. I’ve heard about it, but to see it in writing, is depressing af.
Shocking? The idea of “self-deport” existed a long time ago.
Edit: Idk what the downvotes are about, but its naive to believe that xenophobia didn’t exist before trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_from_the_United_States#Voluntary_departure
Voluntary departure, also known as “informal deportation” or “return”, is the most common form of expulsion in U.S. history, accounting for 85 percent of the nearly 57 million expulsions between 1920 and 2018.
Voluntary departure, aka: “Self-deport”
As European you should be aware that this idea has been used in countries here. German and Swedish approaches have already been posted, and here is another: Austria offers Syrian refugees 1,000 euros to return home.
As “Europeans” we need to get off our high horse and stop pretending we do things better.
Really? Swedish government:
[G]rants may be paid in the amount of SEK 350,000 for those who have reached the age of 18 and SEK 25,000 for those who have not reached the age of 18, but not more than SEK 500,000 for spouses or cohabitants and not more than SEK 600,000 per family
https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2025/04/ett-kraftigt-hojt-atervandringsbidrag/
So that is a litte less that 35,000 USD (after this proposed increase). This is liberal politics in Sweden.
Also to note, the first statement from the minister there in that link, Johan Forssell, his son is active club neonazi. He is still in the party and a Swedish minister. That, and how his party is collaborating with a full party of “ex” neonazis, is how far separated our governments are from nazis in Europe.
Germany actually has a similar program: https://www.returningfromgermany.de/en/page/voluntary-return/
Depends what we mean by real. Kristi Noem is doing television commercials for this.
Do they really give you the $1000 and a free flight? I don’t know if that’s real. The free flight might take you somewhere you were not intending to go.
1000 Trumpbux to spend on his merch
