According to reports, at a cabinet meeting on April 10, 2025, President Trump suggested that undocumented farm and hotel workers might be allowed to leave the United States and return in legal status if they have employers willing to vouch for them. “We have to take care of our farmers, the hotels and, you know, the various places where they tend to, where they tend to need people,” he said. “So a farmer will come in with a letter concerning certain people, saying they’re great, they’re working hard. We’re going to slow it down a little bit for them, and then we’re going to ultimately bring them back. They’ll go out. They’re going to come back as legal workers.”

President Trump said the administration will work with people if they “go out … in a nice way. We’re going to work with them right from the beginning on, trying to get them back in legally. So it gives you real incentive. Otherwise they never come back. They’ll never be allowed once a certain period of time goes by, which is probably going to be 60 days,” he said.