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Posted on 09/09/2025 5:11:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Trump administration is suing migrants with removal orders and issuing fines of up to $1.8 million to pressure them into self-deporting, immigration attorneys tell ABC News.
In recent months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has revived a rarely enforced 1996 law, using it to issue fines to migrants with deportation orders as part of the administration's aggressive immigration crackdown.
ICE said it had issued more than 10,000 fines.
The fines include between $100 and $500 for each unlawful entry or attempted entry, and up to $998 per day, assessed for up to five years, for failing to comply with a removal order.
"Financial penalties like these are just one more reason why illegal aliens should use CBP Home to self-deport now before it's too late," DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in the statement.
John Gihon, a Florida immigration attorney, told ABC News the notices have changed in recent months.
Before July, Gihon said people would receive a notice of intent that they could respond to and appeal. Now, he said, individuals "are just getting invoices."
Gihon told ABC News that one of his clients recently received a $1.8 million fine due within 30 days. He said his client can't voluntarily leave the country because he doesn't have a passport or other travel documents.
"He's been physically unable to leave the United States unless he illegally entered another country," Gihon said. He said his client also has a business and family in the U.S.
"He's unable to comply, and does not want to have to pay all these fines and lose his only livelihood for him and his family," Gihon said.
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He said his client can’t voluntarily leave the country because he doesn’t have a passport or other travel documents.
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And yet he had no trouble voluntarily leaving his own country and traveling illegally to America...
And what’s wrong with involuntarily ??
Just toss his butt out ...
“He’s been physically unable to leave the United States unless he illegally entered another country,”
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A couple of things...
Are both his legs broken and its not illegal for him to enter his own country...
I smell shyte.
Where did he come from? Since he is a citizen of that country, he can go there...he just doesn't want to.
No problem
The client will just be put on a free airloane and deported. The bad part is that he will not be able to pay his legal bill and his assets are forfeited to pay the fines
Tell him he’s from Somalia and he’s going there.
“Immigration attorneys call the fines a “scare tactic” to force people to self-deport.”
So what. No worse than IRS. In fact , much more lenient. Can you imagine how hard the Dems would be hitting the little people with the IRS now if they had won?
Great idea! Thank you, President Trump.
They are costing the American taxpayers millions of dollars. They should be fined until they go home.
Shyster John Gihon sounds like he might be braindead.
I have a difficult time not being vulgar about the failure to shut off the $$ pipeline to illegals by targeting the public programs and employers who willfully employ them.
“In recent months, Immigration and Customs Enforcement has revived a rarely enforced 1996 law, using it to issue fines to migrants with deportation orders as part of the administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown.”
As larrytown said on another thread recently :
“Past negligence is no reason for continued negligence.”
Whatever works...
Yup.
It’s a start.
But I strenuously object if it ends there.
Employers need to be punished. Immediately.
Send a BRUTAL message with a massive takedown, fines and charges at owners.
OH NOES. Enforcing the laws is racist. And xenophobic. Someone think of the poor illegal alien criminals who have been gaming the system for years.
Tbe 1996 law was rarely enforced? Shocking
Contact your embassy and get a passport.
Military flight to his home country's airspace. Rig him up with a static line parachute and toss his sorry ass out the door.
bert wrote: “The bad part is that he will not be able to pay his legal bill and his assets are forfeited to pay the fines”
Why is that ‘bad’?
Bad for the scumbug lawyer
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