More than $84 billion in civil fines have been imposed on illegal immigrants for refusing to leave the US, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced.
In total, since President Trump returned to the White House, 103,000 fines have been issued to illegals for staying the US.
The fines include a $998-a-day charge issued to any illegal immigrant who still doesn’t leave the US after being issued with a final removal order.
“Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, DHS is working faster than ever before to remove criminal illegal aliens from our country,” Lauren Bis, assistant secretary of the DHS’s Office of Public Affairs, said in a statement.
“Our message to illegal aliens is clear: LEAVE NOW. If you don’t, you will face the consequences, including fines, arrest, and deportation. Illegal aliens have a choice: They can use the CBP Home app and receive a free flight home and $2,600, or be fined, arrested, and deported.”
The process of issuing fines was streamlined in June 2025. This included the removal of a provision that gave illegals a 30-day notice of intent from the government before they could be fined.
There have, however, been legal challenges to the new process.
At the beginning of this month, an illegal facing $1.8 million in immigration fines filed a lawsuit against the DHS.
“A $1.8 million fine is not immigration enforcement. It is government intimidation,” Rohmah Javed, director of the Immigrant Justice Program at the center, said in a statement.
“The federal government is reviving obscure enforcement powers to financially devastate immigrant families and send a chilling message. These fines are designed to create fear, not compliance, and no government agency should have unchecked power to impose this kind of life-destroying punishment.”
Senator Rick Scott recently introduced a bill that seeks to double civil financial penalties for illegals who re-enter or remain in the US.
“Decades of open border policies have created an enormous and unfair cost burden on Americans that needs to be offset to make things right; meanwhile, those that entered our country illegally should face consequences for their actions,” Scott said.
“This commonsense bill enforces the law and ensures illegal aliens can’t keep ripping off our country and undermining the hardworking Americans who pay taxes and follow the rules.”
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They’re broke. Poor. Have nothing. Wont work.
Are we going to deport them if they dont pay their fines? No.
This is dumb.