Noem offers $3K to illegal immigrants who self-deport by New Year’s Eve

Kristi Noem is doing her best to pad the Trump administration’s deportation record before the end of the calendar year. During a Monday morning appearance on Fox and Friends, President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem touted a stipend of $3,000, as well as a free flight home to all illegal immigrants who chose to self-deport from the United States before December 31st.The bonus is triple the $1,000 amount that has been offered by the Trump administration in the past for individuals who chose to self-deport.

This offer, however, came with a more ominous warning, as Noem also pledged that ‘illegal aliensshould take advantage of this gift and self-deport because if they dont, we will find them, we will arrest them, and they will not return.’ Noem’s latest announcement comes as other leaders in the Trump administration are reportedly not happy with the number or pace of deportations that has persisted during the first year of the second Trump Administration.

An earlier report from the New York Times noted that per DHS, more than 400,000 deportations have taken place during the second Trump administration thus far. That number is said to be short of Stephen Miller’s target of 3,000 per day, currently averaging between 1,000 to 2,000 daily.

By the end of the yearaccording to DHSTrump is presently on pace to deport 600,000 illegal immigrants, short of his 1 million goal. Trump has been rumored to be searching for a replacement for Noem to head DHS, and Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin who is leaving this current job next month in January due to term limits has been a name floated as a Noem successor.

The Daily Mail reported earlier this monthon the Trump administration’s frantic push to hire 10,000 new deportation officers by years end, exposing how lax vetting and lucrative signing bonuses have lured in a wave of woefully unfit recruits.’We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English,’ one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official told the Daily Mail.

‘We even had a 469-lb man sent to the academy whose own doctor certified him not at all fit for any physical activity.’ Insiders said the vetting process has been so rushed that officials didn’t even wait for drug test results to come back before hiring recruits and flying them off to Georgia, only to discover afterward that tests came back positive.