The Trump government offers a cash allowance and a return ticket to immigrants without legal documents choosing to voluntarily abandon the United States, officials said Monday.

The new policy, which provides for $ 1,000 and a return flight for each immigrant who will leave with his will, is part of the government’s efforts to increase deportations and implement the president’s pre -election commitments.

According to authorities, an immigrant from Honduras accepted the offer and returned from Chicago to his country.

In recent weeks, the government has urged some categories of immigrants to leave the country before they are targeted by the authorities, and has adopted policies that make the stay without legal status more difficult to exclude some immigrants from access to financial services.

According to the same sources, the amount will be paid after the return trip has been confirmed through the new implementation of the government under the name CBP Home, presented earlier this year. The Trump government argues that the program will save public money, as it will avoid the cost of arresting, detention and deportation with government charter flights.

“If you are illegally in the US, voluntary retirement is the best, safest and most economical way to leave and avoid arrest,” Interior Security Minister Christie Nohem said.

Last week, the government announced that about 140,000 immigrants have been deported since January. However, the numbers are not yet responding to President Trump’s central pre -election goal, which is the removal of millions of irregular immigrants.

Selling are often time -consuming and expensive, as they require long -term detention, coordination for travel documents and securing chartered flights to many countries. Problems also arise with countries that do not easily accept their nationals behind or delay the process.

Trump had announced the intention of such a program with motivation in a recent interview with the Fox Noticias network:

“What we want to do is implement a self-care program that we haven’t even announced yet,” he said in mid-April. “All we haven’t yet specified is: What will we give them? We will give them a allowance, an amount, a ticket, and then we will work with them; if they are good, if we want them back, we will make sure they return as soon as possible. “