Posted on 08/27/2025 5:58:34 PM PDT by bitt
The Trump administration has levied billions in fines against illegal migrants who have refused deportation orders, according to a report.
Immigrants have been fined at least $6.1 billion since President Trump took office in January, with some people facing millions in fines for staying in the US years after they were ordered to leave, the Wall Street Journal reported.
In total, 21,500 fines have been issued, sometimes to the tune of nearly $1,000 for every day stayed past removal orders.
One migrant, a Brooklyn restaurant worker who was ordered to leave the country in 1998, was fined $1.8 million in June after daily fines were applied retroactively.
Those facing fines have been threatened with lawsuits by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), hounded by debt collectors and subjected to crushing IRS tax penalties, according to the newspaper. Meanwhile, immigrants who chose to self-deport from the US are rewarded.
“It’s an easy choice: Leave voluntarily and receive [a] $1,000 check, or stay and wait till you are fined $1,000 [a] day, arrested and deported without a possibility to return legally,” a senior DHS official told the Journal.
DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin characterized the fines as a common-sense approach towards people who are blatantly ignoring the law of the land.
“These fines are targeted toward illegal aliens who ignore removal orders and do not honor voluntary departure agreements,” she said.
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(amazing what liens, etc. can provoke...take their assets!)
Good news. I’ll sign off tonight knowing that we are heading in the right direction as far as this policy is concerned.
Good news. I’ll sign off tonight knowing that we are heading in the right direction as far as this policy is concerned.
You can say that again
There is a phrase.
To the fullest extent of the law.
Trump understands that as he has been subject to it by kangaroo courts.
Good Any which way to get these bastards out of our country
no illegal should be able to wire money outside of the country either.
Why not take the fines from any money they try to wire out of the USA.
Let’s hope the collection agencies make good. Criminals (nee illegal aliens) know how to hide their money.
When the first deportation numbers were coming out in January and February, I thought Trump wasn’t gonna even be able to make a dent during his entire term. But now he really is firing on all cylinders and I think he’s gonna clean up a huge portion of this mess so JD Vance can focus on other things.
It would be better to put a million dollar “tariff” on the country of origin for each illegal.
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