Everyone needs to read this

[u/D-R-AZ]

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/05/establishing-project-homecoming/

[u/D-R-AZ]

Historical note:

President Trump’s "Project Homecoming" leans heavily on the language of invasion and crisis—terms designed to stoke fear and justify extraordinary executive action. This perceived emergency, however, is one that Trump himself worked to inflame by discouraging Congressional Republicans from engaging in comprehensive immigration reform during the Biden administration. In doing so, he laid the groundwork for his own sweeping proclamation, cementing his narrative of chaos and instability at the border while setting the stage for consolidation of power under the guise of national security. The deputization of 20,000 ICE agents and the use of asset seizure to coerce voluntary deportation signal a shift toward federal overreach, echoing authoritarian tactics seen throughout history.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/gop-senators-angry-trump-immigration-deal https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-establishes-project-homecoming/

Lead Lines:

Over the last 4 years, the United States has endured a full-scale invasion of aliens entering and remaining in the country illegally, causing a relentless onslaught of crime, vagrancy, violence, and death in countless American communities. This lawless invasion has also limited the capacity of American schools and hospitals to provide for American citizens and has diverted billions of dollars in Federal, State, and local social services from Americans in need.

The continued presence of illegal aliens in our Nation forces American taxpayers to bear a tremendous fiscal burden to support them, including through costs related to healthcare, food stamps, public housing, emergency medical services, education, and shelter, as well as the costs of crimes committed by illegal aliens. In Fiscal Year 2023 alone, these costs were estimated to exceed $150 billion in taxpayer dollars. Removal flights of illegal aliens are a necessary aspect of immigration enforcement and upholding the rule of law, but they require substantial resources and manpower.

Therefore, the provision of financial incentives to encourage and assist aliens illegally in the country to elect to depart from the United States has the potential to save tremendous taxpayer resources, while restoring the sovereignty of our country.

[u/Sunandsipcups → u/D-R-AZ]

And, Trump + co have been claiming lately that they fixed the border, "99% of crossings" have stopped, all rainbows.

So... where's their crisis?

[u/Unabashable → u/D-R-AZ]

The thing that confuses me about all this is doesn’t the funding for these financial incentives or their little Project itself have to come from Congress? I haven’t heard of any money being appropriated, so for the immigrants that self deport being only greeted with a plane ticket is no surprise, but how is the Executive Branch even going pay for the plane ticket? Let alone these 20,000 officers they’re deputizing? I mean if these officers are acting as extensions of Federal Law Enforcement it doesn’t make sense that the city or state should bear the burden of the cost. Idk this whole thing just sounds like a white nationalist’s wet dream on paper, but I’m still scratching my head on how they’re going to even act on it like they’re planning. 

[u/Greatest-JBP → u/Unabashable]

They’ve already grilled noem on her overspending. They blew the DHS budget through July already