The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said Thursday that more than $84 billion worth of civil fines have been imposed on illegal immigrants for their refusal to exit the United States.
In total, 103,000 such fines have been issued to illegal immigrants since the beginning of the Trump administration, the DHS said in a July 23 statement.
The fines include a $998 per day charge levied on any illegal immigrant who does not leave the country voluntarily, even after a final order for removal has been issued in their name.
“Under President [Donald] Trump and [DHS] Secretary [Markwayne] 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 the statement….