Trump team sues immigrant for $1M after she failed to leave US despite court order [View all]
Source: The Independent
Saturday 31 January 2026 20:23 EST
Donald Trump’s administration has filed a nearly $1 million lawsuit against an immigrant who stayed in the United States despite a court order to leave.
The lawsuit reflects the administration’s broader strategy to pressure undocumented immigrants to leave the country by slapping them with substantial financial penalties — constituting just one part of the president’s government-wide anti-immigration campaign.
The federal lawsuit requests a $941,114 civil penalty — plus accrued interest — from Marta Alicia Ramirez Veliz, who is allegedly living in Chesterfield County, Virginia without legal permission.
It’s not clear when or how Ramirez Veliz first entered the country. But she was handed an order of removal by an immigration judge in 2019, which became final after the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed her appeal in 2022, according to the Department of Justice. In April, Ramirez Veliz was served a notice stating she would be fined, and she failed to file an appeal within the necessary 30-day window, according to government lawyers.
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-lawsuit-immigrant-self-deport-order-b2911580.html
Wasted resources.
How about "fining" Muskrat for his visa infraction.
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