The Department of Homeland Security announced that 1.6 million people who were in the United States illegally have self-deported, and another 500,000 have been deported. The department has been pushing self-deportations, spending millions on advertisements that showcase a $1,000 payment and a plane ticket that people who register to self-deport are given. It's unclear how much money in total has been given to people who have self-deported. Tricia McLaughlin, DHS' assistant secretary for public affairs, said the Trump administration is on pace to "shatter" current deportation records. "President Trump and Secretary Noem have jumpstarted an agency that was hamstrung and barred from doing its job for the last four years," she said in a statement. "In the face of a historic number of injunctio
1.6 million people in the US illegally self-deported, 500k deported: DHS
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