Trump news at a glance: immigrants offered money to leave US and White House walks back film tariff plan

DHS claims participation in self-deportation' scheme may help legal re-entry later; administration says no final decisions' made on film tariffs - key US politics stories from Monday 5 May at a glance

The Trump administration will offer undocumented immigrants $1,000 to leave the US as part of its latest crackdown on immigration, drawing criticism for saying that participation in the program may help preserve the option" for an individual to re-enter the US legally in the future".

It is an incredibly cruel bit of deception for DHS [Department of Homeland Security] to be telling people that if they leave they will maintain the ability to return to the US legally in the future'," said Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, in a social media post.