{"id":65363,"date":"2025-05-06T10:14:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65363"},"modified":"2025-05-06T10:14:56","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T10:14:56","slug":"cash-to-go-us-offers-migrants-exit-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/06\/cash-to-go-us-offers-migrants-exit-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash to Go: US Offers Migrants Exit Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The United States is now offering undocumented immigrants one thousand dollars and a free flight home if they agree to leave voluntarily through a new initiative powered by the CBP Home app.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the move is aimed at slashing deportation costs, which can climb as high as seventeen thousand dollars per case.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new plan, migrants who choose to leave on their own will no longer be a top priority for detention.<\/p>\n<p>Since returning to office in January, President Donald Trump has deported one hundred and fifty two thousand people, a lower figure than that recorded under President Biden during the same timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump\u2019s administration is aggressively promoting voluntary return as a cheaper and more efficient solution to immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The United States is now offering undocumented immigrants one thousand dollars and a free flight home if they agree to leave voluntarily through a new initiative powered by the CBP Home app. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says the move is aimed at slashing deportation costs, which can climb as high as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,249],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65365,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65363\/revisions\/65365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}