The offer is part of a new Department of Homeland Security program that encourages self-deportation through the CBP Home app.

The US government is offering migrants who are in the country illegally a sum worth $1,000 (£751) and paid travel if they decide to leave the US. "Self-deportation is the best, safest and most cost-effective way to leave the United States to avoid arrest,

President Trump said his administration will offer one thousand dollars and travel assistance to undocumented migrants to ‘self deport’, which he says will cut costs related to detaining and deporting them.