Web Posted: 07/30/2008 1:02 CDT Voluntary deportations proposed
Rather than risk getting caught, turn yourselves in.

That’s the latest strategy in the government’s ongoing effort to dramatically reduce the nation’s ballooning population of unauthorized immigrants.

Scheduled to be unveiled next week, it was announced Sunday by Julie Myers, director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in an interview with a Spanish-language television network.

Myers told the network that Operation Scheduled Departure will allow unauthorized immigrants without criminal records a chance to literally “self-deportâ€