US judge blocks Trump's $1.8 mn fine on migrants
A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration's plan to impose fines of up to $1.8 million on migrants who fail to leave the US after receiving final deportation orders. In a ruling issued on Monday, US District Judge George O Toole found that the administration's penalty-related policies were unlawful and would likely drive the plaintiffs into insolvency.
The plaintiffs, including two migrants and the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, challenged the fines, arguing that they were issued without proper due process and violated the Administrative Procedure Act. The judge also found that the administration had failed to comply with rulemaking processes in adopting its streamlined fine-imposition process.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had no immediate comment on the ruling. Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in 2017, the department has issued over 103,000 fines totaling about $84 billion, with fines of $998 per day imposed retroactively for up to five years, with a maximum penalty of $1.8 million.
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