ICE Moves To Collect $6B With $1,000-A-Day Fines; Treasury Seizures Push Self-Deportation

El País reports DHS/ICE are moving to collect more than $6B in civil fines against immigrants with deportation orders, reviving a 1996 statute to impose retroactive penalties up to about $1,000 per day. Treasury’s debt collection unit would help seize tax refunds and use private collectors, while ICE dangles a $1,000 “exit bonus” and fine waivers for those who self-deport. Advocates call the strategy coercive and potentially unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment, warning it could push low-wage workers underground and disrupt labor markets.