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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"'They tricked me': Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it"
This is the headline from a Guardian article dated 12/18/25 with a byline from Delaney Nolan. As we expected the deadbeat in the White House isn't paying as promised. False representations to people and courts are "go to" moves for this bunch of fascists.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/migrants-self-deportation-trump-immigration
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"'They tricked me': Migrants were promised $1,000 to voluntarily leave the US. Some never received it" (Original Post)
moniss
7 hrs ago
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I think they just raised it to $2600. But they'll never pay that neither.
sinkingfeeling
7 hrs ago
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D_Master81
(2,368 posts)1. I never understood this
If you came here for work or safety how was $1000 ever supposed to be enticing to go back to where you came from?
moniss
(8,823 posts)3. As one man said he figured it was
better than spending more and more time in ICE-American Gestapo jail.
Ms. Toad
(38,362 posts)4. The writing was on the wall.
If you were going to be snatched off of the street and sent home anyway, isn't it better to end up there with $1000 in your pocket?
sinkingfeeling
(57,396 posts)2. I think they just raised it to $2600. But they'll never pay that neither.