In his continued crackdown on illegal immigration, President Donald Trump announced a plan to pay criminal aliens $1,000 for voluntarily self-deporting.
While it may sound counterintuitive at first, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) said the plan could help rid the country of millions of illegals and do it for cheaper than having authorities hunt them down.
"The American people have really suffered. As you said, there's not 11, there's not 15 million. There's not 20 million. There's close to probably 30 million people here that are not supposed to be here. They're illegal," Tuberville said Monday on Newsmax's "Chris Salcedo Show."
Tuberville said Trump was using the money as bait to lure illegal immigrants out of hiding and back to their own country.
"It costs much more than $1,000 to run these people down, transport them to the border, transport them to wherever they want to go," he said. "It would probably be a very big discount for us to be able to send everybody back for $1,000. It would be a heroic effort by the HHS, everybody involved, Tom Homan, to have this done because it is costing us a fortune. We're having to vote in a $175 billion border bill, just to be able to pay for all these people to go back. It would be much cheaper to do it this way. So I see what President Trump's trying to do, and he might get some people to go back. And that would be awesome."
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