The migrants were given a $1,000 debit card and told they will be allowed to apply for legal entry into the United States.

The first immigrants who agreed to self-deport and accept a $1,000 stipend left on a chartered flight out of the United States on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security said.

The United States has sent 68 immigrants from Honduras and Colombia back to their countries in the first government-funded flight of what the Trump administration is calling voluntary deportations.