DHS Makes Illegals Deal They Can’t Refuse

Letter to Ephesians: US is (finally) reviewing 55 million visa holders to make sure they are properly here while ICE is (finally) taking steps to fine & collect billions from immigrants ignoring deportation orders. Q: What took so long to enforce the law?

Of course, progressives & immigration defense lawyers, are arguing that Uncle Sam suing, then, sic'ing bill collectors on illegal aliens earning minimum wages is really an over the top “scare” tactic to force self- deportation. Yet, as the recent WSJ coverage suggests, at least most of the new aggressive legal tactics have always been on the books & the Biden Administration’s ignoring of them as part of its “open borders” policy has resulted in an unsustainable “wink-wink” system of non-enforcement that’s now turning into a nightmare thousands, if not potentially millions, of illegals who poured into the country in the last 4 years. As the paper illustrates the dilemma, one lawyer has 10 clients with notices of fines exceeding $1 million each – that's because the law provides for steep daily fines & compound interest

penalties, regardless of income. DHS, we’re told, has recently issued 21,500 fines to “persuade people in the backlogged immigration court system” to self-deport.

So, admittedly, THAT is the whole point of the latest enforcement effort for illegals who continue to flaunt the law that US officials had flaunted. As one senior DHS official said: “It’s [now] an easy choice: Leave voluntarily & receive [a] $1,000 check or stay & wait till you are fined $1,000 [a] day, arrested & deported without a possibility to return legally.” Such a deal. Long overdue?

Davd Soul