Undocumented immigrants face massive fines under new Trump rule

"Many people ordered removed for missing a court hearing could face these fines ‒ even if they didn't know about the hearing because the government failed to provide adequate notice (or they were kids)," Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council said in a social media post. "There will likely be legal challenges to the regulation, as it has entirely skipped the normal 'notice and comment' regulatory process. It's clear that there was no emergency here; the current process did permit fines, just with more due process than the Trump admin wanted."