Trump plans to fine migrants $998 a day for failing to leave after deportation order

[Wicked Blue]

Source: Reuters via NBC

The Trump administration plans to fine migrants under deportation orders up to $998 a day if they fail to leave the United States and to seize their property if they do not pay, according to documents reviewed by Reuters.

The fines stem from a 1996 law that was enforced for the first time in 2018, during President Donald Trump’s first term in office. The Trump administration plans to apply the penalties retroactively for up to five years, which could result in fines of more than $1 million, a senior Trump official said, requesting anonymity to discuss non-public plans.

The Trump administration is also considering seizing the property of immigrants who do not pay the fines, according to government emails reviewed by Reuters.

In response to questions from Reuters, U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement that immigrants in the U.S. illegally should use a mobile app formerly known as CBP One — rebranded as CBP Home under Trump — to “self deport and leave the country now.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-plans-fine-migrants-998-day-leave-deportation-order-rcna200194

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Doubling, tripling down on labour disruption. He thinks he's an economic genius. He's stupid & sliding into dementia. nt

[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Getting blood out of a Turnip, Donnie?

There's not much to seize, is there?

What a SICKO!!!

[Wicked Blue]

6. Blood out of a turnip was exactly what I thought

I think this is more of a fear-generating tactic than one where they expect to collect any money.

[Walleye]

7. Yes, but when they don't pay, he can throw them all in prison, some torture prison in El Salvador

His thirst for cruelty is unquenchable

[awesomerwb1]

13. How do you know there is not much to seize?

A lot of immigrants have been in the US for decades. You really think they haven't bought homes or own property or own businesses?

[Miguelito Loveless]

15. No, it will be used to justify

slave labor, in order for them to make "restitution".

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Gotta pay for those gigantic tax cuts for the billionaires some way.

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. Soon he'll go after people like my wife who is here legally on a Green Card.

He's testing his xenophobia on the lowest hanging fruit.

[maxsolomon]

5. Seize their property?

Stupid people put a stupid person in office who hired only stupid people.

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Roofing, picking, cooking, dishes will be totally unattended

People are going to stop working.

[Bengus81]

18. Add in concrete work to that list that will grind to a halt

[Historic NY]

9. If they start flushing the phones they have no metrics

of leave them in port a johns, on construction sites

ICE needs something to do

[FalloutShelter]

10. Are there no workhouses?

Next up... Labor Camps.

[bluestarone]

12. Yea, that's coming.

[HereForTheParty]

14. Great way to work off their debt!

$1.80 an hour seems fair.

[highplainsdem]

17. Private prisons in the US - which the Trump admin already has ICE using - pay less than $1 an hour

for prison labor:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paid_prison_labour

The private prison industry has been backing Republicans for a long time.

Recent.article on GEO:

https://www.propublica.org/article/geo-group-ice-detainees-wage

[OLDMDDEM]

11. Good luck collecting that fine.

[moonshinegnomie]

16. this is actually a good case for bitcoin or other crypto currencies

buy stablecoins that in theory are pegged 1-1 to the dollar. or buy bitcoin. good luck trying to get access to it if your the government. its possible but difficult.....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

19. Should work as well as fining the homeless for sleeping on the streets