The average cost to arrest, detain, and remove an illegal alien from the United States is $17,121, according to the Department of Homeland Security, DHS.
The DHS provided the figure in a statement encouraging targeted immigrants to use the CBP Home App to leave America as the government ramps up immigration crackdown.
The Trump administration is offering those who self-deport a stipend of $1,000 dollars, payable after their return to respective home country has been confirmed via the app.
The DHS said the process, which decreases the costs of a deportation by around 70 percent, allows illegal aliens to avoid being encountered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
The department confirmed the first successful use of the travel assistance by an individual that the Biden administration allowed into the United States.
The DHS said the alien utilized the program to receive a ticket for a flight from Chicago to Honduras, while additional tickets have already been booked for this week and next week.
“DHS is now offering illegal aliens financial travel assistance and a stipend to return to their home country through the CBP Home App,”; said Secretary Kristi Noem.
Individuals who submit their intent to voluntarily self-deport will be deprioritized for detention and removal as long as they demonstrate readiness in completing that departure.
The statement added that the use of the CBP Home may help preserve the option for an illegal alien to re-enter the United States legally in the future.
In Januuary, the Trump administration ended the Biden-era CHNV humanitarian parole program that granted temporary protection to Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals.
The U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, USCRI, faulted the presidential action, arguing that humanitarian parole has been historically used as a tool of compassion.
USCRI CEO, Eskinder Negash, in a statement, said the administration decided to ignore America’s “moral duty and leave people without protection and without other options.”;
