Tim Murtaugh, a Trump 2024 senior adviser, told Newsmax on Tuesday that the Trump administration’s plan to pay illegal aliens $1,000 each to self deport back to their home countries is “a win all the way around.”
“The cost savings is pretty clear – $13,500 in savings to the American taxpayer for each illegal alien that self-deports,” Murtaugh said on “Wake Up America.” “That is pretty remarkable. Multiply that times the tens of millions of illegal aliens that we know we’ve got, and that’s a pretty significant savings to the taxpayers.”
Murtaugh then cited a post on X in which the White House deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, laid out the choices available to people who are in the U.S. unlawfully.
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