Inside Track
Voluntary Deportation Requests Spike Under Trump
The illegal-alien juggernaut at the southwest border of the United States pushed nearly 110,000 Central Americans into the United States in April. The total for fiscal 2019 thus far now exceeds all of fiscal 2018.
But at least some illegals have received the strong message that they aren’t welcome here, and so they want to leave, or at least plan to leave. Illegal aliens, the Marshall Project reported on May 8, are applying in record numbers for “voluntary departure,” which means they are self-deporting. In fiscal 2018, almost 30,000 border jumpers said they’re ready to pack up and head back home.
Voluntary departure, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, permits aliens to leave the country officially without being deported. A deportation prohibits an illegal from returning to the country for five, if not 10 years. Voluntary departure avoids that penalty, although “failure to depart within the time granted results in a fine and a ten-year bar to several forms of relief from deportation,” the agency’s website says.
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