Team Trump is wisely pushing for most illegal migrants to go home voluntarily

Reversing the massive Biden inflow of illegal migrants remains a work in progress, but a necessary one — with getting as many possible to leave voluntarily quite vital.President Trump stopped the wave cold in his first days in office, putting the lie to Democrats’ claims that the border couldn’t be secured without new laws, and it remains stopped (at least until Dems regain power).But former President Joe Biden waved in millions of “asylum seekers,” and millions more jumped the border while border agents were tied up processing the influx.Getting them all out, without dangerous and chaotic mass ICE raids, is hard work, made all the tougher by Democrats’ continued resistance to any enforcement at all.Which is why the feds need to push them to go home on their own.Homeland Security reports that of the 3 million-plus illegals who left the country during Year 1 of Trump’s second term, about 73% (some 2.2 million) self-deported. Part of that is the realization that staying forever won’t be as it once seemed; another is new financial incentives.DHS has issued more than 100,000 fines to illegals who have failed to comply with final removal orders.These fines clock in at $998 per day of overstay; the fines now total in the billions.On the other side of the equation, non-criminal self-deportees face no fines or asset confiscation and (unlike those forcibly removed) remain eligible for legal re-entry; the government even makes subsidized flights home available.  Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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Team Trump lets would-be self-deportees use the CBP Home app to arrange their departure; it’s a wonderful repurpose of the insane Biden-era CBP One app that let would-be illegal migrants schedule their border jumps. How perfect: The purpose of Trump’s border policy must be to ...