US President, Donald Trump has offered to give money and an airplane ticket to any illegal migrant who chooses to ‘self-deport’ to help solve the border crisis in the US.
Trump, who campaigned on a pledge to carry out mass deportations, said in a taped interview with Fox Noticias that his administration is focused right now on getting ‘murderers’ out of the country.
As for others in the US illegally, he said, he´s going to implement ‘a self-deportation program.’
Trump said the US government would provide immigrants airfare and a stipend.
‘We´re going to give them a stipend. We´re going to give them some money and a plane ticket, and then we´re going to work with them – if they´re good – if we want them back in, we´re going to work with them to get them back in as quickly as we can,’ Trump said.
Fox Noticias interviewer Rachel Campos-Duffy, who is married to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, played Trump in a clip of a Mexican man who she said arrived in the US illegally more than 20 years ago and has children who are American citizens.
The Republican president also said he wants to help hotels and farms get the workers they need and recommend people to fill needed positions.
He said that would be ‘very soothing’ to farmers and said he ultimately wants workers who are in the US illegally to leave and come back with legal permission, but he did not outline any steps to do that.
‘We´re doing a self-deportation and we´re going to make it comfortable for people,’ he said. ‘And we´re going to work with those people to come back into our country legally.’