AXIOS (Brittany Gibson) - How Trump's "self-deportation" machine has ramped up
President Trump 's controversial "self-deportation" program, which pays unauthorized immigrants to leave the U.S., is on pace to account for more than 200,000 departures, according to internal data shared with Axios. Why it matters: Launched last year alongside a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, the initiative is virtually the only carrot in an aggressive immigration crackdown that has been long on sticks. - Through July 16, the nearly $600 million program — dubbed Project Homecoming by the Department of Homeland Security — has helped about 132,000 people exit the U.S. - Roughly 70,000 more have signed up and are on track to leave, according to the data. - About half of the self-deportations have involved immigrants held in…