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   October 3, 2025 - The Washington Post reported that the Trump administration was offering migrant children $2500 to self-deport.

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     During Trump's first term, more than 4,000 migrant children were separated from their parents, and over Labor Day Weekend, the administration attempted to deport dozens of Guatemalan children in the middle of the night.

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     "Safe voluntary departure requires legal counsel-not government marketing or what amounts to cash bribes for kids," said Melissa Adamson, senior attorney at the National Center for Youth Law.

     "This administration's actions again prove it cannot be trusted to protect children."

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     Although DHS officials defended the program as "strictly voluntary," immigration rights advocates swiftly pushed back, arguing that the administration was violating federal law by pressuring minors to surrender their rights to immigration proceedings and humanitarian protections; further, many of the children had fled oppressive regimes, violence, or hunger in their home countries.

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