Administration offers $2,500 stipend to teen migrants

The Trump administration, via a letter from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Refugee Resettlement, is offering a one‑time $2,500 resettlement stipend to unaccompanied migrant children 14 years and older who voluntarily return to their home countries. ICE and DHS officials say the payment would be disbursed after an immigration judge approves the voluntary return and the minor has arrived back in their country; the program excludes minors from Mexico and is part of broader voluntary‑departure incentives the administration has promoted.