The Department of Homeland Security’s first charter flight for illegal immigrants who have agreed to “self-deport” departed the U.S. on Monday.

The Trump administration is offering a $1,000 stipend to illegal immigrants who agree to leave the country voluntarily. Under the deal, illegal immigrants can register to self-deport through the CBP Home App and are given travel assistance, a stipend, and three weeks to organize their affairs.

Sixty-four citizens of Colombia and Honduras took the administration up on its offer for the first flight, which left out of Houston on Monday.

“This was a voluntary charter flight, not an [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] enforcement operation,” DHS said.

“All participants were offered the same benefits as any illegal alien who self-deports using the CBP Home App. They received travel assistance, a $1,000 stipend, and preserved the possibility they could one day return to the United States legally.”

DHS said the group “chose to return home the right way.”

In Honduras, deportees were eligible for $100 in government assistance, and food vouchers, DHS said.

The self-deportation program was first announced in March. While Monday’s flight was the first that the administration had chartered to return self-deportees to their home countries, the administration had previously paid for some illegal immigrants to return home on commercial airliners.

Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem have told illegal immigrants that leaving the country voluntarily could give them a chance to return to the U.S. legally in the future.

“If you are here illegally, use the CBP Home App to take control of your departure and receive financial support to return home,” Noem said in a statement to Axios. “If you don’t, you will be subjected to fines, arrest, deportation and will never be allowed to return. . . . Self-deport NOW and preserve your opportunity to potentially return the legal, right way.”

Meanwhile on Monday, the Supreme Court moved to allow the Trump administration to remove legal protections for 350,000 Venezuelans, clearing the way for ICE to include the migrants in its mass deportation program.

The Supreme Court lifted a lower court ruling that blocked the administration from removing Temporary Protected Status for the Venezuelan migrants, a status first granted to them in 2021 under President Biden. Biden reportedly determined that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s socialist regime had made it too dangerous to return Venezuelan migrants to their home country.