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So we the people are giving them (allegedly) $1000 instead of the multiple thousands that they could have produced for the economy. Sounds like that will definitely make us greater. 🤦
They won’t be getting a 1000 dollars, but they will get a free flight to the nearest concentration camp. It’s a trap.
Definitely sounds like a trap.
(What follows is a slightly unrelated anecdote.) I knew a guy who was a tax preparer back in 2009 when Obama put out the “Making Work Pay” stimulus. You basically got a tax refund of like $400 per person if you met a pretty lenient criteria.
Well, my buddy told me that during the 2009 tax season, he would constantly have people coming into his office trying to file taxes, but they hadn’t filed in a few years. After hours of getting their paperwork together and running through the tax schedules for each year, the tax payer would find out that they owed thousands of dollars in back payments. Rather than file their taxes and paying the delinquent taxes, they would just say “yeah, all I wanted was the $400” and just walk out.
I’m sure the IRS cleaned up that year if anyone who owed was bold enough to actually file.
Prizes, you say?
To shreds you say?
How’s his wife holding up?
To shreds you say?
“You may be eligible …”
Yap it’s a honeypot.
I mean if this was a legit thing and someone wanted to leave but didn’t have the financial means then this is good, but most likely anyone who uses this will just get raided by ICE and thrown in prison instead of what it says, because that’s exactly how low and pathetic people are
Am I able to fly to the US for like a vacation to Vegas, then self-deport and take home a grand?
even for this sign for non USA citizens they aren’t willing to budge on putting a non-english language
it’s because the point is to both intimidate victims and also get nazis horny.
So while it sounds like a trap, this might also be real. It allows deportation without due process. This exact thing happened during Dwight D Eisenhower’s presidency to the letter, bonuses and everything. It’s much cheaper and easier to bulk deport if you can convince them to leave by themselves and by making life hell. Extra History JUST put out a video about the Eisenhower thing on September 1.
While I’m not 100% on it being a trap, we’re in an unprecedented “the cruelty is the point” era that we’ve never really faced before. If someone I knew was considering calling the line, I would do everything I could to prevent them from trying it.
- purchase a burner
- install VPN
- install Geo spoofer
- register all Republicans in office
I’m Canadian. I’m going to get this app and try to get paid.
Do you have enough melanin to be eligible though ?
Theoretically it shouldn’t matter if I’m “in the country” illegally
Then you can’t just drive in, you need to sneak in.
ICE will continue to prioritize your removal
Well that’s not bleak at all…
Trump would rather give 1000$ to immigrants than American citizens. Not what I voted for.
/s
Genuine question as a European, is this real?
Go to the website and find out
Holy shit.
It’s shocking to see it as a US citizen too. I’ve heard about it, but to see it in writing, is depressing af.
Shocking? The idea of “self-deport” existed a long time ago.
Edit: Idk what the downvotes are about, but its naive to believe that xenophobia didn’t exist before trump
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_from_the_United_States#Voluntary_departure
Voluntary departure, also known as “informal deportation” or “return”, is the most common form of expulsion in U.S. history, accounting for 85 percent of the nearly 57 million expulsions between 1920 and 2018.
Voluntary departure, aka: “Self-deport”
As European you should be aware that this idea has been used in countries here. German and Swedish approaches have already been posted, and here is another: Austria offers Syrian refugees 1,000 euros to return home.
As “Europeans” we need to get off our high horse and stop pretending we do things better.
Really? Swedish government:
[G]rants may be paid in the amount of SEK 350,000 for those who have reached the age of 18 and SEK 25,000 for those who have not reached the age of 18, but not more than SEK 500,000 for spouses or cohabitants and not more than SEK 600,000 per family
https://www.regeringen.se/pressmeddelanden/2025/04/ett-kraftigt-hojt-atervandringsbidrag/
So that is a litte less that 35,000 USD (after this proposed increase). This is liberal politics in Sweden.
Also to note, the first statement from the minister there in that link, Johan Forssell, his son is active club neonazi. He is still in the party and a Swedish minister. That, and how his party is collaborating with a full party of “ex” neonazis, is how far separated our governments are from nazis in Europe.
Germany actually has a similar program: https://www.returningfromgermany.de/en/page/voluntary-return/
Is this exploitable? Lowkey wanna buy a cheap spare android and see about that free money 👀
Free airfare to the vacation destination of your choice. Don’t forget your passport.
I thought buy a one way ticket to the us, a few weeks of fun, self deport.
I think you cannot buy or board a one way ticket if you are not a US citizen
Why?
Yo how do I self-deport as a citizen? I’m sick of this place.
If you’re joking, be careful. They have deported many a US citizen. They’re trying to meet their quotas.
if you have citizenship elsewhere, you just go there. if you do not, you do not want to be in any kind of “exiled” or “stateless”
The moment you download the app and it runs for the first time, it’s going the phone home and you are already on the list.
