Government attorneys are seeking more than $300,000 combined from two undocumented immigrants in the Bay Area for staying in the U.S.

The Department of Justice is suing two Bay Area immigrants in federal court, seeking to collect more than $300,000 combined in fines issued by ICE for failing to leave the country after immigration judges issued removal orders for both men. 

The Trump administration is dusting off a rarely used law, originally passed in 1997, to hit thousands of undocumented immigrants with heavy financial penalties.

In a June press release announcing new regulations making it easier for ICE to issue civil penalties, the administration said it had already fined more than 10,000 immigrants, including penalties of $998 a day for “failing to comply with a removal order.”

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