Trump team sues immigrant for $1M after she failed to leave US despite court order

[BumRushDaShow]

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

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Wasted resources.

How about "fining" Muskrat for his visa infraction.

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Our tax dollars at work, folks. Are we going to stand for this?

Point me to the GFM.

Good morning, BRDS! 🌞👋

[C_U_L8R]

2. Trading one form of violence for another, eh.

Have they ever tried compassion? No, didn’t think so. They’d implode in the ugliest way.

[Easterncedar]

3. His administration plays with the courts like...

It's all a vast demolition derby, targeting the weakest and running them down, leaving a toxic debris field where the rule of equality under the law, and a shining democracy, a worldwide symbol of human rights (yeah, an ideal we never realized, but dammit we used to at least try) once stood.

[travelingthrulife]

4. And our courts allow him to do it without any sort of punishment for the abuse.

[kacekwl]

5. Seriously this shit should be

thrown out and whoever filed it should be fined biggly.

[Alice B.]

7. This! This! This!

There should be penalties for using the court system to try to wreck someone financially or use it as financial leverage.

[JohnnyRingo]

6. Do I understand this is a private civil suit?

Not the government suing her, but the Trump "administration".
Isn't there a law that says the president can't go around suing people while in office? There should be, because he shouldn't profit from his actions lest he set people and companies up to offend him.

[Mosby]

8. Ask the journalists who wrote the article.

Nt.

[Puppyjive]

9. Why didn't ICE accompany her to the border?

Isn't that there job? And if they don't know her history of how she got here, I would classify her as an asylum seeker. Obviously this person sought a better life in the United States. I don't think you can expect people to just leave on their own accord, especially if we are asking them to return to a dangerous country. And for the Trump administration to think they would ever get a million out of this person is ludacris. Sometimes people don't have the means to move.

[Pharlo]

10. And where will this

fine (if paid) go - the IRS or an account in Qatar?