Speaking to reporters outside the White House, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller discussed the possibility of paying stipends to self-deporting migrants.
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00:00How satisfied are you of how the Mexican government dealt with illegal immigration?
00:06Is this what they've done enough in your mind?
00:09Thanks to President Trump's leadership, the Mexican government has done more than it's ever done.
00:13But it's still not even close to what we need and what the president expects.
00:16There's much more that we expect from Mexico, particularly in regard to the fentanyl threat.
00:21President Trump had previously suggested there could be stipends for people who leave the country on their own.
00:27Yes.
00:28Is that still in the works?
00:28Oh, absolutely.
00:29Is there a cost estimate for how much that will cost?
00:31Will you need Congress to act on that?
00:32It'll actually save us hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:35So the single illegal alien family, over the course of its lifetime, may cost the U.S. taxpayers over $1 million.
00:42So when you give an illegal immigrant a check for, say, $1,000 or $2,000, whatever it may be, $3,000, to leave the country,
00:51you're saving taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
00:54It also saves money relative to us having to go out and find that illegal alien and physically arrest them and deport them, which, of course, we will still do.
01:03So the plan that President Trump has put into place is very simple.
01:05If you choose to stay here unlawfully, you will be fined.
01:09And by law, that fine, by the law Congress has passed, is $1,000 each day you've stayed past your removal order.
01:14That's the law that Congress passed, the law that we're being told we should ignore.
01:18That's democracy, apparently, as the media says we should ignore the laws Congress has passed.
01:21But Congress was clear on this.
01:22You face arrest for illegal work.
01:24You face arrest for document theft.
01:26You face arrest for failure to register as required by law.
01:30You face arrest for evading or obstructing your removal.
01:34And you also face deportation at a time and place of our choosing, including the total confiscation and forfeiture of all of your assets and income.
01:41Or you can choose to book a free flight and get a check and go home on your own terms with your possessions very happily and live your life in your home country.
01:51I have time for two more questions.