ICE Fines Migrant $1.8 Million for Defying Deportation Order

Hundreds of migrants fined millions by ICE under rarely used immigration law

Nearly 20 years after being ordered to leave the United States, a woman living in Florida has been hit with large fines by federal immigration authorities. The woman, originally from Honduras, received a letter on May 9 from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement notifying her that she owes $1.82 million in civil fines. She has been given 30 days to either pay the fine or provide evidence explaining why she should not be required to pay it. Wh…

Migrants Face Fines Up to $1.8 Million.

PULSE POINTS: What Happened: U.S. immigration authorities are issuing fines, some as high as $1.8 million, to illegal immigrants who failed to leave the country after deportation orders. Who’s Involved: Wendy Ortiz, a Salvadoran migrant; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); Customs and Border Protection (CBP); immigration lawyers; and the Trump administration. Where & When: United States, with fines beginning to be issued in recent we…

Five hundred dollars a day. That is charging the United States from April 2005 to date to an immigrant, 41 years old and mother of three American children. The reason? The migrant, 20 years ago, did not appear at a court hearing and received a deportation order. That is why she has a fine of $1.82 million.

Wendy Ortiz was surprised to learn that the U.S. immigration authorities were going to fine her for being in the country illegally, but the amount was what really shocked her: $1.8 million. Ortiz, 32, who earns $13 an hour at work at a meat-packing plant in Pennsylvania, has been living in the U.S. for a decade, after fleeing El Salvador to escape a violent ex-partner and gang threats, said in an interview and on immigration papers. Her salary b…

Some 4,500 migrants told to pay fines ranging up to $1.8 million

The steep fines are part of Trump’s aggressive push to get immigrants in the U.S. illegally to leave the country voluntarily, or “self deport.”

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