President Trump’s offer of $1,000 and a free flight to any migrant who leaves the country has the backing of Alabama’s senior U.S. senator.

“President Trump’s probably putting a little bait out there for them, saying, ‘listen, we’ll pay you $1,000 to go back … it costs much more than $1,000 to run these people down, transport them to the border, transport them to wherever they want to go,’” Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala. said during an appearance Monday on Newsmax.

Earlier in the day, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced the proposal: migrants who sign up via the CBP Home app will be given a $1,000 stipend and a free flight out of the country and will be deprioritized for deportation.

Tuberville, one of the president’s closest allies in the Senate and who is rumored to be running for governor of Alabama, said the offer is a fair deal for the country.

“It would probably be a very big discount for us to be able to send everybody back for $1,000. It would be a heroic effort by the HHS, everybody involved, Tom Homan, to have this done because it is costing us a fortune,” he said.

Tuberville noted the Senate is debating a $175 billion border bill that would pay migrants to go out of the country.

“It would be much cheaper to do it this way, so I see what President Trump’s trying to do,” the senator said. “And he might get some people to go back, and that would be awesome.”