Jasmine Crockett Gives Her Take On DHS Giving $1,000 To Illegal Immigrants Who Self-Deport

On CNN, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) responded to DHS giving $1,000 to illegal immigrants who self-deport.

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00:00right now. So President Trump says his administration's latest self-deportation

00:05policy will allow some migrants a potential path back to the U.S. DHS also says it will pay an

00:11additional $1,000 to people who verify that they have left the U.S., people in this country illegally,

00:17who have left the U.S. and returned to their home country. I want you to listen to what White House

00:22Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said about this a few days ago. A single illegal alien family

00:28over the course of his lifetime may cost U.S. taxpayers over $1 million. So when you give

00:35an illegal immigrant a check for, say, $1,000 or $2,000, whatever it may be, $3,000, to leave the

00:41country, you're saving taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. It also saves money relative

00:47to us having to go out and find that illegal alien and physically arrest them and deport them.

00:53You represent a border state. Obviously, there are a lot of undocumented migrants in Texas.

00:57What do you make of this? Would you advise any undocumented individual who comes to you that

01:02maybe they should take the money and go back to their home country? What's your take on it all?

01:06I wouldn't trust this administration for anything. First of all, they are terrible about paying their

01:09bills, number one. Number two, most of those people that have come over regardless of what

01:13this administration said, they came over because they were fleeing things such as the fact that they

01:18don't have the opportunity to work and earn a living or they're fleeing political violence.

01:24And so what is $1,000 if you're going back to a place where you may lose your life? They risked

01:29their lives, many of them coming over here in the first place. That's number one. Number two,

01:32I want to see some numbers. Where in the heck did you just pull this number out of your back pocket

01:37saying that they're costing us approximately $100 million, the one, I'm sorry, not $100 million,

01:42a million dollars for each undocumented person? The only numbers that we have show that we receive

01:49approximately $100 billion in tax revenue from undocumented people, so much so that they decided

01:55that they want to go to the IRS and get the IRS to help them as they go and seek these people.

02:00You know why? Because they've been working and they've been doing the jobs that now they want

02:04to roll back child labor protections and make sure that poor children are the ones that are doing those

02:09jobs because now we're going to have those vacancies if we're going to have jobs left at all as we

02:14continue to endure the grind of this failed experiment around this tariff war.