{"id":192,"date":"2025-05-05T22:17:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T22:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/?p=192"},"modified":"2025-05-13T05:55:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T05:55:48","slug":"gallego-proposes-alternative-to-trumps-self-deportation-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/05\/gallego-proposes-alternative-to-trumps-self-deportation-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gallego proposes alternative to Trump&#039;s self-deportation offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) on Monday proposed an alternative to a $1,000 offer from the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5282847-trump-migrants-payment-self-deportation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump administration to migrants<\/a> if they \u201cself-deport\u201d via an app.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy don\u2019t we make them pay a $5k fine, go through a background check and give them a work visa for a few years, renewable with good behavior,\u201d Gallego <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RubenGallego\/status\/1919412772242387391\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said in a post<\/a> on the social platform X in response to another post from The Associated Press about the offer.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the $1,000 offer on Monday, describing the funds as a way to \u201cfacilitate travel back to their home country,\u201d which will be paid upon confirmation via the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Home app that they have returned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelf-deportation is a dignified way to leave the U.S. and will allow illegal aliens to avoid being encountered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE),\u201d the department said in a previous press release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIllegal aliens submitting their intent to voluntarily self-deport in CBP Home will also be deprioritized for detention and removal ahead of their departure as long as they demonstrate they are making meaningful strides in completing that departure,\u201d the DHS continued.<\/p>\n<p>Gallego on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ImMeme0\/status\/1919478795746058278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">replied to some X users<\/a> who commented on his alternative proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me get this straight: you\u2019re telling people who are following the legal path to citizenship that you want illegal immigrants to pay $5,000 to skip the line\u2014even though they broke the law. Got it,\u201d one user said in response to the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWork visa is not [citizenship],\u201d Gallego replied.<\/p>\n<p>Another user stated that \u201cthe fine should be higher,\u201d to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RubenGallego\/status\/1919479943303397554\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">which Gallego said<\/a>, \u201cIt can be higher. It just needs to work able.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Hill has reached out to the DHS for comment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify mb-2\" >Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) on Monday proposed an alternative to a $1,000 offer from the Trump administration to migrants if they \u201cself-deport\u201d via an app.&nbsp; \u201cWhy don\u2019t we make them pay a $5k fine, go through a background check and give them a work visa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yesn2.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}