Exclusive: Here’s how many immigrants have signed on to DHS’s nearly billion-dollar ‘self-deportation’ plan | CNN

President Donald Trump has heralded a $915 million incentive program and app as key tools to get undocumented immigrants to voluntarily leave the country, part of a broader push his administration credits with getting 2.2 million people to “self-deport.” But a new document shared internally within DHS and reviewed by CNN shows that the program has helped 72,000 leave the US as of this month. The majority who signed up were already in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, the document shows. Homeland Security officials have not publicly released detailed data on how many people have left the US under the new program, which the administration argues saves money by slashing the cost of deportations. The plan, called Project Homecoming, offers stipends of up to $2,600 and free flights to immigrants to return home. Many others have left on their own without using the app, the agency said in a statement. “DHS has been consistently clear that those who have used the CBP Home app and utilized Project Homecoming are but a fraction of the those who have voluntarily left the country because illegal aliens know President Trump is enforcing our immigration laws,” said a DHS spo