# 2025-08673: White House Launches 'Project Homecoming' with Pay-to-Go for Undocumented Folks

2025-08673, Establishing Project Homecoming, is a Federal Register presidential document from Executive Office of the President published 2025-05-14, effective 2025-05-09; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-08673
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2025-08673
- Title: Establishing Project Homecoming
- Type: Presidential Document
- Agencies: Executive Office of the President
- Citation: 90 FR 20357
- Published: 2025-05-14
- Effective: 2025-05-09
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

White House Launches 'Project Homecoming' with Pay-to-Go for Undocumented Folks

## Summary

Project Homecoming gives people living in the U.S. illegally a choice: get financial help to leave voluntarily or face legal consequences. This plan aims to save taxpayers billions by reducing costs tied to illegal immigration and starts right away. It affects all undocumented immigrants and promises faster, government-supported departures to protect American communities and resources.

## Effects PRIA read

- Federal-Funded Exit Bonus and Flights: benefit, medium. The proclamation directs the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Homeland Security to provide a financial "exit bonus" for each illegal alien who voluntarily and permanently departs the United States, and states that any flights provided under these processes shall be funded by the Federal Gove…
- Harsh Penalties for Remaining Illegally: cost, high. The proclamation states that illegal aliens who choose to remain will face consequences including removal, prosecution, incarceration, fines, garnishment of wages, and confiscation of savings and personal property, including homes and vehicles. It also requires a nationwide communications campaign…
- Rapid Enforcement Increase: +20,000 Officers: cost, high. The proclamation directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to supplement enforcement and removal operations by deputizing and contracting with state and local law enforcement, former Federal officers, other federal personnel, and other individuals to increase DHS's enforcement and removal force by…
- Nationwide Notification Campaign: benefit, low. The proclamation directs a nationwide communications campaign to notify illegal aliens about the availability of cost-free travel, the exit bonus, and the consequences for remaining, as described in section 3(a).

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## Sources
- [2025-08673 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/05/14/2025-08673/establishing-project-homecoming)
- [2025-08673 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-05-14/pdf/2025-08673.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2025-08673 (as of 2026-06-08).