Self-Deportation Incentives Get More Desperate: Patricia Lopez

The latest inducement to get undocumented immigrants to leave the US is one that is unlikely to sit well with much of President Donald Trump’s working class MAGA base: a parting gift of $1,000 and a plane ticket home.

But news of this arrangement has been mostly eclipsed by the second part of the self-deportation strategy: The threat, for anyone who fails to self-deport, of being sent to a country with a terrible human rights record.

Stephen Miller, architect of Trump’s immigration policies and his deputy chief of staff, summed it up in a social media post on Monday, saying, ...