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.

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.

More than 60 people flew from Houston to Central and South America this week on a pilot flight of the new U.S. Department of Homeland Security initiative Project Homecoming, which offers free flights and $1,