Trump admin unveils plan costing migrants massive fine for every day they don't self-deport

The Trump medication plans to statesman fining illegal immigrants taxable to a deportation bid $998 a time if they bash not permission the United States.

"Illegal aliens should usage the CBP Home app to self-deport and permission the state now. If they don’t, they volition look the consequences," Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Tuesday. "This includes a good of $998 per time for each time that the amerciable alien overstayed their last deportation order."

Using a 1996 instrumentality that was not enforced until President Donald Trump’s archetypal word successful 2018, the medication plans to use the penalties retroactively to amerciable immigrants for up to 5 years, resulting successful fines of much than $1 million, an medication official told Reuters, who was archetypal to study connected the fines.

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The administration could besides prehend spot from amerciable immigrants who neglect to wage the stiff penalty, the study noted.

A flyer provided to Fox News Digital shows the "benefits" and "consequences" for amerciable immigrants who neglect to self-deport via the CBP Home app.

"Self-deportation is safe," the flyer reads. "Leave connected your ain presumption by picking your departure flight."

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Other benefits of self-deporting see allowing non-criminal amerciable immigrants to support wealth they earned successful the U.S. and allowing amerciable immigrants to support eligibility for imaginable aboriginal legal immigration, portion immoderate amerciable immigrants whitethorn adjacent beryllium eligible for subsidized flights if they person occupation affording a ticket.

Meanwhile, the "consequences" conception of the flyer warns that those who neglect to self-deport volition beryllium "apprehended by DHS with nary accidental to get your affairs successful bid beforehand."

Venezuelan migrants locomotion pursuing their accomplishment connected a formation aft being deported from the United States, successful Caracas, Venezuela, connected March 24, 2025. (REUTERS/Leonardo Fernandez Viloria)

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The flyer besides spells retired the imaginable fines, including the $998 per time good for failing to comply with last removal orders and a good of $1,000 - $5,000 for failing to self-deport aft "claiming that you will."

"If you neglect to self-deport, you whitethorn beryllium taxable to jailhouse time," the flyer concludes, adding that amerciable immigrants would besides aboriginal beryllium "prohibited from reentering the U.S. done the ineligible migration system."