{"id":16189,"date":"2025-04-08T13:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T13:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16189"},"modified":"2025-04-08T21:56:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T21:56:50","slug":"trump-administration-to-fine-illegal-migrants-998-a-day-unless-they-self-deport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=16189","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration to Fine Illegal Migrants $998 a Day Unless They Self-Deport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/08\/trump-administration-to-fine-illegal-migrants-998-a-day-unless-they-self-deport\/\">https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/08\/trump-administration-to-fine-illegal-migrants-998-a-day-unless-they-self-deport\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<h5>by\u00a0Charlotte Hazard<\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration will begin charging illegal migrants $998 a day if they are under a deportation order and don\u2019t self-deport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIllegal aliens should use the CBP Home app to self-deport and leave the country now,\u201d Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trump-admin-unveils-plan-costing-migrants-massive-fine-every-day-dont-self-deport\">said in an interview with Fox News<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday. \u201cIf they don\u2019t, they will face the consequences. This includes a fine of $998 per day for every day that the illegal alien overstayed their final deportation order.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The administration is using a 1996 law that will allow illegal migrants to be fined if they don\u2019t leave the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Property can also be seized from illegal migrants who don\u2019t pay the fine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A flyer was given to Fox News Digital that showed the \u201cbenefits\u201d and \u201cconsequences\u201d of self-deporting through the CBP app.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelf-deportation is safe,\u201d the flyer reads. \u201cLeave on your own terms by picking your departure flight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p><em>Charlotte Hazard is a reporter for Just the News.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<div style=\"line-height: 1.1;color: #aaa\"><span style=\"font-size: 10px\">Reprinted with permission from <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/white-house\/trump-administration-begin-fining-illegal-migrants-unless-they-self-deport\">Just the News<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px;border: none;color: #000;background-color: #aaa\" \/>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/08\/trump-administration-to-fine-illegal-migrants-998-a-day-unless-they-self-deport\/\">Trump Administration to Fine Illegal Migrants $998 a Day Unless They Self-Deport<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\">The Star News Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/thestarnewsnetwork.com\/2025\/04\/08\/trump-administration-to-fine-illegal-migrants-998-a-day-unless-they-self-deport\/ by\u00a0Charlotte Hazard \u00a0 The Trump administration will begin charging&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":16046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-daily-star"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16190,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16189\/revisions\/16190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}