Posted on 04/08/2025 9:52:07 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
President Trump is done playing games with illegal immigrants who refuse to leave after receiving deportation orders. The administration announced a bold new plan to impose hefty $998 daily fines on migrants who overstay their deportation orders. It's not stopping there, either; it will also seize property from those who don't pay up.
This is exactly the kind of decisive action we need to address our immigration crisis. The fines stem from a 1996 law that Trump first utilized during his first term in 2018. The Biden administration, naturally, had halted this practice when it took office in 2021. But now it is back, and this time, the administration is taking it several steps further by applying penalties retroactively for up to five years.
Naturally, the left is already crying foul, because that’s what they do whenever Trump does something. Former ICE policy official Scott Shuchart tried to paint this enforcement action as some kind of scare tactic, claiming, "Their point isn't really to enforce the law, it's to project fear in communities."
That’s cute, but let’s be honest here about what’s actually happening. Trump's goal with this policy is to get illegal immigrants who have been ordered to leave the United States to actually follow the law. As DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin plainly stated, "If they don't, they will face the consequences. This includes a fine of $998 per day for every day that the illegal alien overstayed their final deportation order.”
DHS issued the warning about potential fines in a March 31 social media post...
...he White House is pushing U.S. Customs and Border Protection to handle not just the fines, but also property seizures and asset sales for those who refuse to pay. The Department of Justice's civil asset forfeiture division could get involved as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
They'll have to mow a lot of lawns, pick a lot of apples, and clean a lot of bathrooms to come up with $998 per day. I wonder why they didn't make it an even $1,000 per day.
At some point might the “lawfare” used against POTUS be recognized as aiding and abetting?
Theres no such people
And president trump didnt do anything again anyone...
The laws of the United States are against illegal aliens
He should be going after those that hire them...which i believe is already written into the labor laws....including fines.
Yes, I have been advocating this for years. Seize the RICO (everything they earned in due to illegal actions) assets and use it to deport them.
Yes,
And pursue those who rent to them
Bravo!
Don’t fine them—just deport them!
I agree stop hiring them. Fine those that do, repeat offenders get jail time.
Why didn’t they make it an even $2000? My thoughts as well.
Add a $2 sur charge. Make it a stamp. It could become a collectors item as well.
I have family in El Paso. Every person who wants to keep even ONE illegal here in this country.. send to a border town and keep them there to deal with the illegals.
$1000
if ICE has to look for you
its gonna be expensive
Wow,
5x365x998 = $1,821,350
That’s a lot of bathrooms cleaned!
We need to somehow pay for all that deportation expenses.
We would all love to see that.
Millions of them waked right across our border in open defiance of our laws... They can walk right the F’ back out or lose everything.
I like it.
IIRC-—FINE IS $5000 a day per employee
only by a person with clear mind and eyes open.
OUT! GET O U T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
maybe this is why a recent trip to Walmart on a Saturday had only one small section of self check out open with one employee overseeing it and only one cashier lane open?
too many people had to abruptly leave employment?
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