Posted on 05/20/2025 8:08:25 PM PDT by Morgana
An undocumented Honduran mother living in South Florida says she was hit with a staggering $1.82 million fine from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for failing to leave the country for two decades.
The 41-year-old mother-of-three, identified only as Maria, has lived in the US since 2005. Her original asylum case was denied, and she has been under a deportation order since 2020.
Maria said she was blindsided when she received a letter from ICE last month stating she owed $1,821,350 in civil penalties.
'They're charging me because I've been in this country illegally since 2005,' she told Telemundo 51 in Spanish. 'I have no way to pay for it. I was never notified about a fine and never received documents warning this was coming.'
'Ever since that day I live with anxiety. I can't sleep… I don't feel,' she added to CBS News Miami. 'I don't want to go back. It would be extremely painful to be separated from my children. This is their country, this is all they know. Please have mercy. I want to stay with them.'
Mariasaid she fled Honduras after her brother was killed by members of the violent MS-13 gang, and has since worked as a cleaner and caregiver while raising three American-born children.
According to her attorney, Michelle Sanchez, Maria never knew she had a deportation order in 2005, and the fine appears to stem from an obscure clause in the 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act allowing ICE to issue $500-per-day fines to undocumented immigrants with final removal orders.
'She never knew she had a deportation order,' Sanchez told NBC 6 South Florida. 'She is seeking aggressively to fight this in court.'
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😂
FAFO......
She didn’t know about the deportation order because she likely never showed up for her asylum court date. 🙄
That’ll be a lot of toilets to scrub to pay it off.
Still illegal no matter how long you are here.
no, it is not their country.
they are citizens of whatever country you came from.
if the father is known, there could be another country involved
I bet you we paid for her childbirth costs via Medicaid.
Not to mention cotton to pick.
So, she moved here at 21 years old and then had 3 children. No doubt she collects benefits on their behalf: Housing, food, health care, perhaps even $.
The article says she’s a hard working tax payer. I believe she’s a hard worker. But, any taxes she’s paid gets returned back to her plus the EIC for 3 children.
I wish they’d stop saying ‘tax payer’.
“after her brother was killed“
Well then. Many people here have lost family to gang violence. It happens every day.
I’ve seen it happen. In my neighborhood.
So does that mean they’re entitled to a 20 year vacation in the country of their choosing?
If not then go back home!
I am only astonished that the right thing is finally being done about illegal aliens.
Thank you, President Trump!
Exactly.
Unfortunately.
Well said.
Thank yew! :)
Bingo. The kids are likely split-double-illegals; where both parents are illegal alien invaders from two different countries.
Let Honduras and some other South American country sort out their mess.
An ILLEGAL ALIEN was “stunned” when she learned that thr united states e forces it’s laws and means that she would have to pay for her crimes... news at 11:00
I’m willing to wave the fine if she packs up and leaves with her kids if they don’t have actual citizen family to stay with in the next 30 days
Adios, mamacita...
Get out and stay out...
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