Winning paragraphs emphasize below. Love how Trump is using laws passed and signed into law by Democrats
“The Trump administration has begun suing individual illegal migrants for ignoring removal orders and refusing to self-deport back to their home countries, a report says.
The administration has filed suit against an illegal migrant living in Virginia, and is seeking $941,114 plus interest, alleging that Marta Alicia Ramirez Veliz has remained in the country despite being told her request for admittance was rejected by a Justice Department appeals panel in 2022, Politico reported.
The filing notes that Veliz has refused to pay a $998 per-day fine for the 943 days since she was told to return to her home country, and reveals that Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent her an official notice of her total fine in April.
The lawsuit describes Veliz as “an individual and noncitizen residing in Chesterfield County, Virginia,” and does not identify her nationality.
The Department of Justice has filed similar lawsuits against recalcitrant migrants in other districts across the country, as well.
Politico added that a man in Florida has been hit with a $717,000 bill for failing to pay fines after being ordered to leave the country as directed, and migrants in Texas and California have also been the subjects of similar lawsuits.
Congress passed a law, signed in 1996 by Bill Clinton, to allow the federal government to impose civil penalties and fine illegal aliens for failing to self-deport after being told their applications to immigrate were formally declined, but the Trump administration is the first to initiate legal proceedings against migrants who have not paid their fines and yet still remain in the country despite being told to leave.
Trump first began utilizing the rules in his first term, but Biden immediately ended the practice when he took office in 2020. Trump has revived it, though, since taking office for his second term.
Federal officials have now sent out some 10,000 notices of the fines through June of last year.
“The law doesn’t enforce itself; there must be consequences for breaking it,” DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in June. “President Trump and Secretary [Kristi] Noem are standing up for law and order and making our government more effective and efficient at enforcing the American people’s immigration laws.”
DHS added that migrants using the Customs and Border Protection’s CBP Home app to self-deport will have any fines levied against them waived.”
Go after the employer. Why is this so difficult? Make it some people are terrified to even accidentally hire an illegal alien. Go after not just HR but executives with jail and fines. Start fining companies percentages of last years gross profit earned for each hired.
Exactly. We need to go after the employers for illegals and H1-B fraud.
Why not just go arrest them and put them on a damn plane?
No new laws needed to do what you say (go after their employer).
8 U.S. Code § 1324a - Unlawful employment of aliens
(f) Criminal penalties and injunctions for pattern or practice violations (1) Criminal penalty
Whenever the Attorney General has reasonable cause to believe that a person or entity is engaged in a pattern or practice of employment, recruitment, or referral in violation of paragraph (1)(A) or (2) of subsection (a), the Attorney General may bring a civil action in the appropriate district court of the United States requesting such relief, including a permanent or temporary injunction, restraining order, or other order against the person or entity, as the Attorney General deems necessary.
Sauce: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1324a
If they freeze the bank accounts this will have real teeth.
She didn't pay the fines. Why would anyone believe she will pay court ordered penalties?
Just grab her ass and haul it to the border. It would be a lot cheaper, and less time consuming.
I'd prefer if we claw back some of the American dollars they have stolen from us, before we ship them home and ban them forever
The majority of the "stolen" funds are from the "permanent residents" who come here with no job and all their children in tow. They get off the plane at JFK. Drive to PA, sing their brats into school, then head down to the welfare office to get food stamps and medical assistance. They have NO intention of getting a job or becoming an American.
Then we take everything they have, give them $1000 and a plane ride back to their home country.
And a complete ban on future re-entry to the USA.
Simple
I pray for this!
They actually get $2600 if they voluntarily self-deport using the CBP Home app.
https://abc7ny.com/post/dhs-increasing-deportation-stipend-1000-2600/18444117/
My understanding is they get all their fines dropped as well by doing so AND they can still apply for immigration in the future. This is the carrot, ice busting down their door or raiding their employer's business is the stick.
I would too, but many of them are lining their nests back in their own countries to keep the US from getting at it.
There must be a way to coerce those countries to forfeit up their funds and repatriate them. I don't think many countries could stand up to us if we demanded our money back, or else we cut them off completely and other punishments if they don't play ball
Exactly
This is a war on multiple fronts.
Trump isn’t using one chessboard, he’s playing 30 of them on different levels and still moves ahead
Brilliant to do this on ALL the illegals and then sort out the monetary $$$ balance owed by individual countries (individual nationalities) and then...we could file a lien of some kind against these countries. BAM! Take the different countries to the Swiss ? /or Brussels ICC...FILE THEM CHARGES! Tell them to take their own citizens back and pay up!! Derelict Nations Law/Clause (does this exist?)... 😅...I got dizzy just thinking this stuff up! I want Rubio or Steven Miller in charge. I'll assist. 😂
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