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Trump's Project Homecoming [1]

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Date: 2025-05-10

Yesterday, there was an executive order signed by Trump's autopen handler called "Establishing Project Homecoming." The clip on his Truth Social post is just him talking about it. This one and 7 others were signed in secret, and I'm claiming by autopen.

It sounds like a good thing, but what it is, is an authorization for the government to pay for immigrants to go to another country. In the meantime here is the post explaining it.

He calls for immigrants to self deport or get deported to whenever Trump wants to send them.

"TO ALL ILLEGAL ALIENS: BOOK YOUR FREE FLIGHT RIGHT NOW!"

Pretty plain, all caps command.

The Executive Order is, of course, more detailed. He starts by blaming Biden.

"Over the last four years, the United States has endured a full scale invasion of aliens entering the country illegally, causing a relentless onslaught of crime, vagrancy, violence, and death in countless American communities."

He goes on to claim, as he always does, that Federal and local resources are used up by immigrants that could go to real Americans. He forgets that these people pay more taxes than his billionaire friends or at least a far greater percentage of their wages. Says right here that undocumented immigrants pay more in taxes than the top 1%.

He sites data from 2023 that says undocumented immigrants cost $150 billion, without any citation of where he get got the information from. Again, saying that they take up taxpayer resources. Healthcare, food stamps, public housing, emergency medical services, education and shelter along with all the crimes that they commit.

"Removal flights of illegal aliens are a necessary aspect of immigration enforcement and of upholding the rule of law, but they require substantial resources and manpower."

Guess what? It's not an Executive Order that he claims he signed, but a Proclamation he didn't sign.

"This proclamation establishes Project Homecoming, which will present illegal aliens with a choice: either leave the United States voluntarily, with the support and assistance of the Federal Government, or remain and face the consequences."

The Customs and Border Patrol has a phone app, now called "CBP Home," as in, "GO HOME." It was originally set up to allow immigrants to make asylum court appointments. When Trump took power all of the asylum appointments were canceled. Now the first option on the program is about self deporting.

The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security are "to take all appropriate actions to enable the rapid departure of illegal aliens from the United States who currently lack a valid travel document from their countries of citizenship or nationality or who desire to travel to any other country willing to accept their entry."

Those cabinet departments are to develop a concierge service to handle immigrants that show up at airports without documents, get them on a plane and set them up to be able to collect the "exit bonus."

No exit bonus amount is described. But various agencies have to put it together and figure out where the money is coming from, but it's for every undocumented immigrant that voluntarily deports, and it must be permanently. How they get it to them is another question. Or they might be just kidding, and aren't going to give them the money at all, which would fit right into their pattern.

Then there has to be an advertising or communications program put together to let all undocumented immigrants to know about the free flight out and the bonus program. But the consequences for not doing so take a lot longer to describe. The choices they face then are removal, prosecution, incarceration, and fines consistent with immigration law, garnishment of wages, confiscation of savings and personal property, including homes or vehicles.

They can probably get away with everything, up until garnishment of wages and confiscation. That's the same due process problem that they've got with the Fifth Amendment in giving immigrants the ability to contest their removal. You just can't deprive people of life, liberty or property without due process.

Within 60 days, the Department of Homeland Security is to bolster its workforce by 20,000 officers. This is to be done by deputizing and contracting state and local law enforcement, former Federal officers, officers and personnel within other Federal agencies, and other individuals.

Contracting. Contracts are things to be ignored by DOGE, but here, they've all of a sudden become a good thing. I see private firms filling any gaps and the contracts will go to Trump's buddies. There are already private prisons with terrible reputations. Also private surveillance firms to keep track of immigrants.

Seeing as how this will be individuals showing up at airports, instead of chartering a whole plane, they can just get them on a commercial airline. The question is, do passengers get bumped for this if there are no available seats?

Project Homecoming is a cover for still another deportation scheme. It will cost how much? It's open ended. The cost of having the concierge service waiting for immigrants to show up. How many airports? Just regional hubs? Are the 20,000 just going to do this in their spare time? Quotas? Per person bonuses?

There is now a Fact Sheet; President Donald J. Trump Establishes Project Homecoming up on Whitehouse.gov.

At the end of it he explains all he's done to make his mass deportation work, starting with the national emergency at the Southern border. That's being challenged because there isn't one. Trump just declares national emergencies or needed for national security reasons, like his tariffs. And I keep calling them undocumented immigrants, instead of illegal aliens, wherever possible.

Deployed military and National Guard at the border. Restarted border wall construction. Criminal organizations like MS-13 and Tren de Aragua declared as terrorist groups. Suspended the entry of undocumented immigrants at the border. Called for enhanced vetting and screening of immigrants. Required an identification of countries that warrant a partial or full suspension of those nationals entry. Resumed "Remain in Mexico" protocol. Ended the use of CBP One and turned it into CBP Home. Terminated all parole programs. Ended automatic citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants. - No he hasn't. That one is guaranteed in the 14th Amendment. He's trying to. Paused refugee programs, which he obviously want to make permanent. Ended catch-and-release policies. Revoked all of Biden's border policies. Detained (sent) the most dangerous criminals to Guantanamo Bay and El Salvador's prisons. Except, he had to bring back all the ones from Guantanamo Bay. Removed the monetary incentive for undocumented immigrants to stay in the United States by making sure they do not receive taxpayer funded resources.

The Departments of State and Homeland Security have 60 days to figure this new Project Homecoming out. It's rife for corruption by private contractors and the new 20,000 personnel, wherever they come from.

Undocumented immigrants need know what that exit bonus is going to be, to make any kind of a decision. That $1,000 that was floated last week is ridiculous. The property confiscation will be done first, and then let the courts work it out. Which will go against Trump, but he will defy court orders again.

Contempt of court is on the horizon, and it won't be those $1,000 fines Trump got. This is going to be a showdown. The courts need to take charge and get things under control now, because Trump won't stop until he is stopped.

The normal criminals need to be rounded up like Bondi, Noem and Patel. This ridiculous focus on undocumented immigrants is taking resources away from real national security matters, starting with getting rid of Hegseth. Turn the cyberwarfare against Russia back on. Get rid of tariffs before it's too late.

Trump goes after undocumented immigrants because they are an easy target. Red meat for MAGA. It makes it seem like all the other disasters are worthwhile to endure. But Pope Francis gave Vance a dressing down about the treatment of immigrants, and he had choice words for Trump long before he passed away. Pope Leo XIV has also had words about Trump's cruelty.

If Trump actually believed in Christianity, he couldn't be doing what he is doing. Ask him to find a quote in the Bible that justifies what he's doing. He won't be able to, but there's a vast assortment about the poor and the downtrodden. But Trump doesn't think they are human beings. They're just animals poisoning the blood of the country.

That alone is a reason to stop Trump. Stand up and be counted and oppose Project Homecoming. We're not going to get second chances.

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