Trump says he wants to give money and airplane tickets to immigrants who 'self-deport'

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump said helium wants to springiness wealth and an airplane summons to immoderate migrant who is successful the state illegally who chooses to “self-deport,” and enactment to get those who are “good” backmost successful the U.S., a interruption from his accustomed hardline migration rhetoric.

Trump, who campaigned connected a pledge to transportation retired wide deportations, said successful a taped interrogation with Fox Noticias that aired Tuesday that his medication is focused close present connected getting “murderers” retired of the country. But for others successful the U.S. illegally, helium said, he’s going to instrumentality “a self-deportation program.”

Trump offered fewer details astir the plan, including timing, but said the U.S. would supply immigrants airfare and a stipend.

“We’re going to springiness them a stipend. We’re going to springiness them immoderate wealth and a level ticket, and past we’re going to enactment with them — if they’re bully — if we privation them backmost in, we’re going to enactment with them to get them backmost successful arsenic rapidly arsenic we can,” Trump said.

Fox Noticias interviewer Rachel Campos-Duffy, who is joined to Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, played Trump a clip of a Mexican antheral who she said arrived successful the U.S. illegally much than 20 years agone and has children who are American citizens.

It is not wide if the antheral present has ineligible support to beryllium successful the country, but Campos-Duffy said the antheral said that adjacent though helium cannot vote, helium would person supported Trump. She played a clip of the antheral saying helium agrees that if idiosyncratic commits a crime, they should beryllium returned to their countries — including himself.

“I look astatine this man. I say, this is simply a feline that we privation to keep,” Trump replied. “I’ll astir apt instrumentality vigor for saying it.”

He past asked if the antheral was expected to beryllium deported and answered his ain question: “No, helium didn’t accidental that. Good.”

“I don’t deliberation he’s successful immoderate information of it,” Trump said.

The Republican president besides said wants to assistance hotels and farms get the workers they request and urge radical to capable needed positions.

He said that would beryllium “very soothing” to farmers and said helium yet wants workers who are successful the U.S. illegally to permission and travel backmost with ineligible permission, but helium did not outline immoderate steps to bash that.

“We’re doing a self-deportation and we’re going to marque it comfy for people," helium said. “And we’re going to enactment with those radical to travel backmost into our state legally.”

Fox Noticias said the interrogation with Trump was taped Monday.

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Associated Press writer Will Weissert contributed to this report.

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