President Donald Trump is offering illegal immigrants $1,000 to self-deport. (Getty/AP)
"We’re not gonna lose any gangbangers like that or any criminals, I think people that are trying to figure out a way to get back," Burchett said.
He added as another point, "Where will the money come from? Again, any money we spend now we’re just borrowing, so that’s a concern."
President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said earlier this week that it would soon begin giving $1,000 stipends and travel aid to illegal immigrants who self-deport.
DHS said it was far cheaper than the cost of arresting someone and detaining them while their deportations are processed – an average cost of $17,000 according to the department.
"I think it is pathetic that we’re in a position where we have to pay for people and pay for their flights and remove them and then give them money," Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital.
"But at the end of the day, everything is a calculation, at this point, on how you remove people and get sanity in our system. So I’m going to give the administration a lot of deference on that."
Rep. Mike Flood said, "It may be cheaper in the long run." (Getty Images)
"I think what we’ll probably find is it costs us a whole lot more than $1,000 to go arrest them, put them in detention, and then physically deport them," Clyde said.
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But others, like Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz., just wanted to know that studies were being done on the plan’s potency.
"Do we have any studies on the efficiency?" he posed. "Also, how do you stop any type of scamming of the system – come across, go back, come across? It should be done by the math."
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and DHS for comment.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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