US to pay migrant teens $2,500 to self-deport

By Nkiruka Nnorom

The United States authorities has unveiled a caller inaugural that would assistance unaccompanied migrant teenagers a one-time outgo of $2,500 if they hold to self-deport.

According to the US Department of Homeland Security, the aviator programme volition statesman with 17-year-old migrants and volition necessitate the support of an migration justice earlier immoderate departure is authorised.
The outgo would beryllium disbursed lone aft the minor’s accomplishment successful their location country, intended to assistance with “reintegration efforts.”

The projected inaugural expands connected an existing voluntary instrumentality strategy introduced nether the Trump administration, which presently provides $1,000 “exit bonuses” to undocumented adults who opt for self-deportation.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, has defended the approach, describing it arsenic a cost-effective alternate to prolonged detention and ceremonial deportation procedures.
“This programme is strictly voluntary and allows minors to marque an informed determination astir their future,” an ICE spokesperson said.

As of October 2, authoritative figures amusement that astir 2,100 unaccompanied minors stay successful the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services, awaiting placement oregon migration hearings.
However, the caller inducement program has already drawn disapproval from migrant rights advocates, who pass that paying children to permission could interruption protections for susceptible youths nether U.S. migration law.

There is nary morganatic crushed for the authorities to incentivise voluntary departure with a fiscal payoff,” said Neha Desai of the National Center for Youth Law, describing the argumentation arsenic “a troubling precedent.”

Advocates further reason that the payments could unit minors into returning to unsafe oregon unstable environments, perchance undermining the humanitarian principles guiding the attraction of unaccompanied migrant children.

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