[fsckboy]

it's a real policy (it's an app), provide a link if you have a source that says it's not, otherwise you're just unproductively snarking. it's certainly cost effective, a few thousand voluntary is much cheaper than administrative means.

[notpachet]

I have friends who've been deported without criminal records. They didn't get paid anything. I don't know what you're talking about.

I'll repeat what I said:

> If you think the current administration is giving cash stipends to anyone it's been working to deport as part of its dragnet

What policy or app says "when ICE deports people, give them a stipend" ?

Edit: Here's the ICE manual on how deportations are conducted[1]. There's no mention of cash payouts.

[1] https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/dro_policy_memos/09684drofie...

[fsckboy]

as I said before, the program is to volunteer to go home prior to being deported by the govt; the point is by volunteering you save the cost of deportation (agents, lawyers, court time, incarceration, transportation)

so if your friends were deported before applying, then it's too late because that deportation already cost the govt money.

the program is only months old, so if your friends got deported before that it wouldn't apply.

you have to apply for the program (I think you just download the app and sign up) in advance, you can't just return home and then apply.

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/05/dhs-announces-historic-t...

https://www.ice.gov/self-deportation

[notpachet]

Interesting. I missed this. Thanks.