This Reuters article reports that the Trump administration is offering unaccompanied migrant children in U.S. custody a one-time stipend of US $2,500 to voluntarily return to their countries of origin. The offer applies to minors aged 14 or older (with an initial focus on 17-year-olds), though Mexican minors are excluded. The payment would only be made after approval by an immigration judge and the child’s actual return home. Advocacy groups have sharply criticized the policy as coercive, warning it pressures vulnerable children to relinquish legal protections they may be entitled to in the United States.