The Feds Are Offering Migrants Cash to Self-Deport. Lawyers Call These Incentives Misleading.
The Department of Homeland Security’s new initiative to pay migrants for self-deportation is troubling not for what it offers, but for what it conceals. On paper, the promise of a stipend, waived fees, and the chance to return legally may sound like a humane alternative to detention and forced removal. In reality, immigration law does not support many of these guarantees, meaning the campaign risks misleading vulnerable people into making choices that could permanently close the door on their future in the United States.
Supreme Court Grants Trump Green Light for Expanded ICE Patrols in California
On Monday, the Supreme Court sided with President Donald Trump’s efforts to permit immigration enforcement agents to continue what opponents have called “roving patrols” in Southern California—tactics that lower courts had ruled likely violated the Fourth Amendment.
The justices gave no explanation for the ruling, which drew a strong dissent from the Court’s three liberal members. The case stemmed from incidents in which heavily armed, masked ICE agents stopped and questioned Latino residents in the Los Angeles area—including U.S. citizens—about their immigration status. Lower courts concluded ICE lacked the “reasonable suspicion” needed to justify such encounters.