Letter writer Lou Ann Prosack questions whether immigration enforcement could be done more “humanely” ( “Immigration can’t be handled humanely?” Aug. 19). Coincidentally, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem recently announced that 1.6 million undocumented immigrants have self-deported .
The Trump administration launched the “Project Homecoming” initiative on May 5, offering a $1,000 bonus and free travel to undocumented immigrants who voluntarily self-deported from the United States. That’s more than simply humane, it’s downright generous.
If people, knowing full well they are in this country illegally and that there’s a good chance they will be “rounded up,” decide to dig their heels in, hide and stay, that’s on them. Don’t accuse the American government of not being able to com