The U.S. government is planning to give migrant teenagers a $2,500 stipend if they choose to return to their home countries voluntarily, the latest push by the Trump administration to encourage self-deportations, according to an internal federal notice obtained by CBS News.
The notice, sent Friday by officials at the Department of Health and Human Services, said the Department of Homeland Security "will provide a one-time resettlement support stipend of $2,500 ... to unaccompanied alien children, 14 years of age and older, who have elected to voluntarily depart the United States as of the date of this notice and moving forward."
The monetary offer would be available to unaccompanied migrant children in the custody of HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is required by law to house