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Posted on 01/29/2026 2:59:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The new lawsuit is part of a wave of litigation seeking fines for undocumented immigrants for failing to depart the country.
The Trump administration sued a Virginia woman for almost $1 million as part of an escalating drive to get undocumented immigrants to leave the U.S. by levying court-imposed fines.
The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Richmond, seeks $941,114 plus interest from Marta Alicia Ramirez Veliz for allegedly failing to leave the U.S. for more than three years after a Justice Department appeals panel ruled against her in an immigration case in 2022.
Officials appear to have arrived at the whopping sum by imposing a $998 daily fine for each of the 943 days that passed between the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissing Ramirez Veliz’s appeal and Immigration and Customs Enforcement sending her a formal bill last April.
The Trump administration set up a new process last year to assess the fines. Lawyers challenging that system say the penalty for Ramirez Veliz appears to be the highest sought among dozens of similar lawsuits the administration has brought in recent months.
“That does sound like the largest number we have heard when we were tracking this,” said Charles Moore, a lawyer with the public interest law group Public Justice. “We know that the amounts were as low as $3,000 and as high as several hundred thousand but, no, we hadn’t heard of anything close to $1 million.”
Legal experts say they’ve strained to find any patterns in the new lawsuits or tens of thousands of bills ICE has sent out, although attorneys say the assessments often go to immigrants who have been fastidious about keeping their addresses updated in government files and checking in with immigration officials...
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Democrats back in power will impose civil fines on Republicans for twice that.
Question for everyone here:
Can’t the feds get illegals to leave by just blocking or emptying their bank/credit accounts so they literally have no money unless they get out of Dodge?
Beautiful, different approaches for different social/economic classes of illegals, lawsuits and asset forfeiture will help drive out the hard to uproot and discourage more like them.
Duh?
It makes it easy to send someone a bill if you know where they are.
I don’t understand why they don’t just cut off the federal transfer payments that most of them get.
See how Politico calls her a “Virginia woman”? We wouldn’t want to deport a Virginia woman, any more than we would want to deport a Maryland dad.
The beer swilling lay abouts taking odd jobs for cash, supplemented by their girlfriends and wife’s welfare, have to be physically driven out.
Sounds better than Mexican national e.g. the truth.
need to start doing this to every freaking one of them!
for allegedly failing to leave the U.S. for more than three years after a Justice Department appeals panel ruled against her in an immigration case in 2022.
That would be the most direct way to get them moving out.
Either play or pay!
“Democrats back in power will impose civil fines on Republicans for twice that.”
Problem is democrats are to lazy to do any enforcement activity. It is always the girl at the courts or DMV with 4 feet of OPH and half foot long nails who will need to get her civil servant in gear to get after republicans. She can be avoided by staying far away from the urban environment.
However, an executive order Trump signed last year on the first day of his second term, instructed immigration officials to resume the use of financial penalties. Immigration authorities issued almost 10,000 such fines through June of last year and then adopted new regulations aimed at allowing more fines to be issued “quickly and at scale.”
A law passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996 authorized civil penalties for immigrants who “willfully” fail to leave the country as directed.
The Biden administration discontinued the practice, with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas concluding there was “no indication” that the fines actually induced people to leave the country.
We are testing now.
What's the problem?
Yep, tagline is still accurate.
Good!
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