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Now that the bleeding at the southern border has stopped, it’s time to start getting the estimated eleven million illegal aliens already in the United States out. With ongoing judicial overreach preventing mass deportations, getting illegal aliens to simply self-deport may be the answer.
This is something that the Trump administration has already begun to do by turning the CBP One app into a self-deportation tool for illegal aliens. The app was originally used by the Biden administration to make it easier for illegal aliens to enter the country.
According to former U.S. Marshal Robert Almonte, the strategy of repurposing the app to make self-deportations easier is working. He said, "I understand there’s been many undocumented migrants here that are using that app and self deporting. That needs to be done and it is being done."
The next step is to make sure that illegal aliens have no incentives to stay in the United States, so that they’ll choose to self-deport. Fox News columnist David Marcus suggested in a recent opinion piece that we could do that by imposing a $25,000 fine on anyone who knowingly or unknowingly employs an illegal alien in violation of federal law.
Almonte says that would make it virtually impossible for them to work in the United States and force them to self-deport. He said, "It would be $25,000 per person that they should not have hired. It would be a tremendous amount of money, so obviously that would be a deterrent."
He also said it’s important to make sure that any taxpayer-funded benefits to illegal aliens are cut off as well, saying, "In these sanctuary states and cities, they were giving them money, they were providing housing to them in the form of hotels."
Trump has attempted to force sanctuary jurisdictions to cut those benefits off by issuing an executive order to withhold federal money from them, but an Obama-appointed federal judge out of San Francisco has recently blocked that order.