Establishing Project Homecoming

Proclamation 10935 of May 9, 2025

Establishing Project Homecoming

By the President of the United States of America

A Proclamation

Over the last 4 years, the United States has endured a
full-scale invasion of aliens entering and remaining in
the country illegally, causing a relentless onslaught
of crime, vagrancy, violence, and death in countless
American communities. This lawless invasion has also
limited the capacity of American schools and hospitals
to provide for American citizens and has diverted
billions of dollars in Federal, State, and local social
services from Americans in need.

The continued presence of illegal aliens in our Nation
forces American taxpayers to bear a tremendous fiscal
burden to support them, including through costs related
to healthcare, food stamps, public housing, emergency
medical services, education, and shelter, as well as
the costs of crimes committed by illegal aliens. In
Fiscal Year 2023 alone, these costs were estimated to
exceed $150 billion in taxpayer dollars. Removal
flights of illegal aliens are a necessary aspect of
immigration enforcement and upholding the rule of law,
but they require substantial resources and manpower.

Therefore, the provision of financial incentives to
encourage and assist aliens illegally in the country to
elect to depart from the United States has the
potential to save tremendous taxpayer resources, while
restoring the sovereignty of our country.

As President, it is my legal obligation to exercise all
tools at my disposal to end this invasion, remove the
illegal-alien invaders from the United States, and
protect the American people. This proclamation
establishes Project Homecoming, which will present
illegal aliens with a choice: either leave the United
States voluntarily, with the support and financial
assistance of the Federal Government, or remain and
face the consequences.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and the laws of the United States
of America, including the Immigration and Nationality
Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq.), hereby proclaim and
direct as follows:

Section 1. Free Return Home and CBP Home Application.
(a) In furtherance of the purposes of this
proclamation, and to facilitate the rapid departure of
illegal aliens from the United States, I direct,
pursuant to section 215(a)(1) of the INA (8 U.S.C.
1185(a)(1)), the Secretary of State and the Secretary
of Homeland Security, in consultation with the heads of
other relevant executive departments and agencies
(agencies), to create seamless processes for illegal
aliens to rapidly depart the United States, including
through available technological resources, such as the
``CBP Home'' application.

(b) Any flights provided to illegal aliens
voluntarily and permanently departing the United States
pursuant to processes established under subsection (a)
of this section shall be funded by the Federal
Government.
(c) In furtherance of the purposes of this
proclamation, and to facilitate the rapid departure of
illegal aliens from the United States, I direct,
pursuant to section 215(a)(1) of the INA (8 U.S.C.
1185(a)(1)), the Secretary of State and the Secretary
of Homeland Security 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.
(d) The Secretary of State and the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall create a concierge service
whereby any alien illegally present in the United
States may arrive at an airport, with or without
appropriate travel documents, book air travel to
permanently relocate to a different country, and claim
the exit bonus described in section 2 of this
proclamation upon their successful return.

Sec. 2. Exit Bonus. In furtherance of the purposes of
this proclamation, and to facilitate the rapid
departure of illegal aliens from the United States, the
Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland
Security, in consultation with the heads of all
relevant agencies, shall provide financial incentives
in the form of an ``exit bonus'' for each illegal alien
who voluntarily and permanently departs the United
States.

Sec. 3. Penalties for Aliens Who Fail to Depart. (a)
The Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland
Security, in consultation with the heads of other
relevant agencies, shall conduct a nationwide
communications campaign to notify illegal aliens of the
availability of cost-free travel to other countries;
the exit bonus; and the sweeping consequences for those
who choose to remain illegally present, including
removal, prosecution, incarceration, and fines as
consistent with applicable law for immigration-related
crimes; the garnishment of wages; and the confiscation
of savings and personal property, including homes and
vehicles.

(b) No later than 60 days after the date of this
proclamation, the Secretary of Homeland Security shall
supplement existing enforcement and removal operations
by deputizing and contracting with State and local law
enforcement officers, former Federal officers, officers
and personnel within other Federal agencies, and other
individuals to increase the enforcement and removal
operations force of the Department of Homeland Security
by no less than 20,000 officers in order to conduct an
intensive campaign to remove illegal aliens who have
failed to depart voluntarily.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
ninth day of May, in the year of our Lord two thousand
twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United
States of America the two hundred and forty-ninth.