The Trump administration is preparing to launch a program that would offer money to unaccompanied migrant teenagers in federal custody in exchange for voluntarily returning to their home countries, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
The initiative will begin with 17-year-olds and provide $2,500 to minors who choose to depart the US after an immigration judge approves their request and they arrive in their country of origin, said a person familiar with the matter, who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
HHS, which oversees the Office of Refugee Resettlement, said in a statement that the program was ...