The first immigrants who agreed to self-deport and accept a $1,000 stipend left on a chartered flight out of the United States on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said.

Because this program is not law, there is nothing to stop the government from simply deporting people who sign up for it.

The Department of Homeland Security said the 64 people who volunteered received $1,000 and a chance to return to the U.S.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claims that “If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the ... the previous administration’s policy of limiting enforcement efforts ...

Noem has launched a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign warning undocumented immigrants to “leave now” or face deportation. Fliers for the program tout the benefits of self-deportation ...

Whatever the economic case may be for self-deportation stipends, the policy discounts the pull that life in the United States has held for generations of arrivals. And it misunderstands why people ...

At the time, Trump, years from launching his presidential campaign, commented on Romney’s proposal: “He had a crazy policy of self-deportation, which was maniacal. It sounded as bad as it was ...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem claims that “If you are here illegally, self-deportation is the ... the previous administration’s policy of limiting enforcement efforts ...