The writer is a contributing columnist, based in Chicago
A free airplane ticket to any country on earth, $1,000 in cash and a special concierge service at the airport to help those without passports or visas: that’s what the Trump administration is offering an “illegal alien” willing to “self-deport”. “As long as it’s not here, you can go anywhere you want,” the US president promised in a video posted to Truth Social.
But Project Homecoming could prove far from irresistible to many of the estimated 13.7mn undocumented immigrants in the US. On the main street of one of Chicago’s heavily immigrant neighbourhoods last week, reactions ranged from disgust to laughter. I didn’t find any takers.
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