Good news! Mind boggling! Serious stuff!
"The project has grown rapidly since April, when the department had levied fines against at least 65,000 migrants for at least $36 billion. The fines are set at almost $1,000 per day of illegal presence. ...
The fines are part of the multifaceted campaign by President Donald Trump to implement the deportation mandate he was given in November 2024.
The forced departure of economic migrants will help younger Americans win higher wages and cheaper rents and will pressure politicians and elites to sympathize with ordinary Americans instead of with employers and migrants. ..."
"... The Trump administration is aggressively deploying a potent tool to pressure undocumented immigrants [???] into self-deporting — civil fines that can total as much as $1.8 million.
More than 100,000 people have received letters from the Homeland Security Department informing them that they owe $998 for each day that they have stayed in the United States after an immigration judge has ruled they have no legal right to remain in the country.
Fines for failing to heed a “removal” order have been permitted since the passage of immigration legislation in 1996. Until President Trump, however, no commander in chief had imposed such penalties. The effort to do so in his first term ran into logistical obstacles and never gained traction. ..."
