Tuesday, May 6, 2025
The 7
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🗓️ 6 May 2025
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Tuesday briefing: Trump’s deportation offer; Hollywood tariff; Gaza occupation plans; Pence interview; best Met Gala looks; and more
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| 0:00.0 | The Trump administration will pay migrants to leave the U.S. |
| 0:07.3 | Mike Pence had some tough words for his former boss, |
| 0:11.6 | and celebrities strutted the red carpet at the Met Gala. |
| 0:15.6 | That's some of what we'll get to on the seven from the Washington Post. |
| 0:19.1 | I'm Hannah Jewell. It's Tuesday, May 6th. Let's get you caught up |
| 0:23.1 | with today's seven stories. |
| 0:27.6 | Number one. The Trump administration is offering to pay $1,000 to migrants who self-deport. |
| 0:35.7 | The Department of Homeland Security said yesterday that it's offering |
| 0:39.6 | stipends to undocumented immigrants who return to their home countries. That's in addition to |
| 0:45.6 | travel and other financial assistance. To get it, they must submit their intent to depart |
| 0:51.3 | through an app. The agency said that the average cost for immigration and customs enforcement to arrest, |
| 0:58.0 | detain, and remove someone is around $17,000. |
| 1:01.9 | So their argument is that the stipend offer would reduce costs. |
| 1:06.4 | DHS official Trisha McLaughlin said on Fox News that migrants should trust the program. |
| 1:12.1 | There's documentation, and we're giving you our word that we will give you this money, |
| 1:17.0 | that you can leave today. It's the safest way. You will not be arrested. You will not be detained. |
| 1:22.2 | And we will give you that free flight. President Donald Trump has vowed to deport at least one |
| 1:27.3 | million people in the first year of his second term. |
| 1:31.0 | But polling shows that Trump's actions appear to be pushing Americans in the opposite direction of his early agenda, including on immigration. |
| 1:39.9 | According to a poll from Yukov and The Economist, since Trump took office, more Americans |
| 1:45.0 | think immigration makes the U.S. better off. |
| 1:53.6 | California Governor Gavin Newsom offered to partner with President Trump. |
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