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BumRushDaShow

(165,167 posts)
Sat May 10, 2025, 06:46 AM May 2025

Trump Signs Self-Deportation Executive Order With Free Flights to Anywhere 'As Long as It's Not Here'

Source: MEDIAite

May 9th, 2025, 8:05 pm


President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday establishing a new voluntary deportation program that offers free flights to undocumented migrants who choose to leave the U.S. on their own.

The proclamation, titled “Establishing Project Homecoming,” was announced in a video message posted by the official White House X account.

In a 90-second address, Trump detailed what he described as “the first-ever self-deportation program for illegal aliens.”

“Any illegal alien can simply show up at an airport and receive a free flight out of our country,” Trump said. “We have also launched a phone app called CBP Home. That’s C-B-P-H-O-M-E, where illegals can book a free flight to any foreign country. As long as it’s not here, you can go anywhere you want.” Trump also described what he called an “important exit bonus” for illegals to “incentivize” their self-deportation.

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/trump/trump-signs-self-deportation-executive-order-with-free-flights-to-anywhere-as-long-as-its-not-here/

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Trump Signs Self-Deportation Executive Order With Free Flights to Anywhere 'As Long as It's Not Here' (Original Post) BumRushDaShow May 2025 OP
How about citizens The Madcap May 2025 #1
That May Very Well Be In The Cards -- Life's Permutations Are Indeed Stranger Than Fiction MayReasonRule May 2025 #7
"YOU ARE NOT WELCOMED HERE!" ProudMNDemocrat May 2025 #2
They don't have real IDs. No plane ride for you. twodogsbarking May 2025 #3
BINGO!! riversedge May 2025 #14
You do know that your own wife is an "illegal", right? travelingthrulife May 2025 #4
We should have offered that when Melania and Musk where here ILLEGALLY......... Bengus81 May 2025 #5
The Orange Shit-Gibbon Scrawls Some Words Across The Page... Signs It "Kiss My Grits" MayReasonRule May 2025 #6
BULLSHIT.... there's no profit in that. groundloop May 2025 #8
If I had a job lined up elsewhere, I'd take it -- and let this maladministration pay for my trip. nt eppur_se_muova May 2025 #9
I think that, for my next vacation.... reACTIONary May 2025 #10
What is paying for this? Retrograde May 2025 #11
I foresee booming business in the fake ID trade intrepidity May 2025 #12
So, my Irish friend who overstayed his visa, can get a free flight to Fiji, vacation, and then sinkingfeeling May 2025 #13
DHS Mosby May 2025 #15

MayReasonRule

(4,008 posts)
7. That May Very Well Be In The Cards -- Life's Permutations Are Indeed Stranger Than Fiction
Sat May 10, 2025, 09:11 AM
May 2025

It's akin to a basic economic observation that second order changes come about very slowly over extended periods of time and then suddenly escalates exponentially in a moment.

We currently have a greater number of known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns than at any other in my lifetime.

Europe opening their borders for Americans is a very real possibility.
Canada opening their borders for Americans is a very real possibility.

There are two types of Nazis, The Machiavellian and The Darwin Award Winners.

Nazis rely upon a Darwin Award Winning serf population.
Without it fascism could not function.
Fascism relies upon meat grinder jobs for the Soylent Greeen economy.

Non-fascists are non-compliant.
Nazis prefer for non-fascists to leave.

“In honor of our great Veterans on Veteran’s Day, we pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country, lie, steal, and cheat on Elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America, and the American Dream,”

-- Donald Trump

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,553 posts)
2. "YOU ARE NOT WELCOMED HERE!"
Sat May 10, 2025, 07:18 AM
May 2025

Is basically what the tRump Administration is saying.

That might come down to us Americans who speak out against this current regime.

Bengus81

(9,758 posts)
5. We should have offered that when Melania and Musk where here ILLEGALLY.........
Sat May 10, 2025, 08:35 AM
May 2025

Wouldn't miss either of them..................

groundloop

(13,554 posts)
8. BULLSHIT.... there's no profit in that.
Sat May 10, 2025, 10:25 AM
May 2025

People who fall for this ruse will end up in one of the foreign countries who are paying a kickback to tRump to imprison the people tRump has kidnapped.

eppur_se_muova

(40,864 posts)
9. If I had a job lined up elsewhere, I'd take it -- and let this maladministration pay for my trip. nt
Sat May 10, 2025, 10:42 AM
May 2025

reACTIONary

(6,950 posts)
10. I think that, for my next vacation....
Sat May 10, 2025, 11:03 AM
May 2025

... I'm going to "self deport" to Paris. The $1,000 should cover the flight back, and leave a bit left over for some duty free shopping for arbitrage.

intrepidity

(8,550 posts)
12. I foresee booming business in the fake ID trade
Sat May 10, 2025, 11:59 AM
May 2025

I mean, what possible kind of ID would an "illegal" need to book such a flight?

Crafty Americans wanting free airfare for a vacation will just show up at an airport with fake ID showing them to be "undocumented" (what does that even look like??) and get a free ride wherever they want. I'd go to New Zealand.

But really, why not?

sinkingfeeling

(57,060 posts)
13. So, my Irish friend who overstayed his visa, can get a free flight to Fiji, vacation, and then
Sat May 10, 2025, 01:23 PM
May 2025

fly home?

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