#self-deport

North Texas Pastor Forced to Self-Deport Amid Visa Backlog North Texas – October 2025 — A beloved North Texas pastor is preparing to leave the country and his congregation behind after an immigration ordeal that has left his community stunned and heartbroken. Pastor Albert Oliveira, originally from Brazil, is being forced to self-deport due to an overwhelming backlog in the U.S. visa system,…

Rising Trend Of US Immigrants Choosing to Self-Deport Explained A growing number of immigrants in the United States—both undocumented and those with legal status—are making the difficult decision to voluntarily return to their countries of origin amidst the rising trend of US immigrants choosing self-deportation. This phenomenon, often referred to as self-deportation, is driven by mounting fears…

Will the Trump administration offer a similar stipend to those US Citizens who might consider expatriating from your rottening, ungreat country?

Troops to remain on U.S. border through January at POTUS security plan forces MORE migrants to self-deport

(National Sentinel) Playing Defense: A Pentagon official said Friday that U.S. troops deployed along the border with Mexico to assist federal civilian authorities with security will remain there through the month of January.

“Today, DHS submitted a request for assistance to the Department of Defense to extend its support through January 31, 2019,” said Army Lt. Col. Jamie Davis in a statement.

That it is, dear reader, that it is.

I’m lucky. I’m still a citizen of that land that gave me birth. But my spouse will need a visa. And we have stuff*. And we have pets that we’re not abandoning, because the very idea makes me hyperventilate. And we’ll need a place to live because my relatives will put up with me for only so long and I don’t have a large family - just the opposite, in fact. And we’ll need to buy food and bus tickets and a bed to sleep on in between job-hunting and navigating the intricacies of immigration.

I’ve done the research. I’ve talked to fellow repatriated immigrants who’ve trodden this same path and asked them what the real cost was to import a spouse, to bring a pet, to shift the furniture. I assure you, those numbers are not being pulled out of my ear.

Paperwork - passport renewals, duplicate copies of essential things that will be needed at different stages of the process, replacement of said essential things paperwork that GODDAMNIT I’ve managed to lose over the years - is going to take about $800, alone. $800 - $1000 to freight the household goods. $1600+ to ship the cats. $3000 - $5000 for the spouse’s visa application (fellow ex-immigrants who cut and run assure me this is how much they spent importing their partners). $2000 for airfares (assume high, but pray for a sale, right?). $1500 - $2000 in miscellany during those lovely weeks post-return but pre-first-paycheck because cats need feeding and humans need bus / train fares while we job hunt all over the place. Thank god I have an auntie who’ll take us in for the first couple of weeks but, after that, we’re on our own. (Guests and fish, my friends, guests and fish). And, to top it all off, 25% - 28% of any crowdfunding is automatically vaped by payment processors and the IRS.

And that’s why 95% of the people who swear they’re going to leave the country if So-and-so wins end up staying where they are, regardless.

"Alabama's new immigration law aims to make life so difficult for illegal immigrants that they will "self-deport." And in a way it's working. Immigrants are fleeing Alabama...but not just the undocumented ones. This and other stories of people living with the unintended consequences of their decisions."