The Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will fine migrants nearly $1,000 every day they stay in the United States past the date of their deportation order.

The Trump DHS will enforce a 1996 law that allows it to impose a fine of $998 on migrants for every day they stay past the date of their removal order. The administration says it will enforce the penalties retroactively to cover up to five years, resulting in fines of more than $1 million against offenders.

The government could even seize the assets of migrants who refuse to leave the United States on their own accord despite having an order of removal.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin explained that migrants can inform the government of their intent to depart the country via the Customs and Border Patrol Home app, an overhauled version of the CBP One app that the Biden administration used to streamline the flow of migrants into the United States.

“If they don’t, they will face the consequences,” McLaughlin charged. “This includes a fine of $998 per day for every day that the illegal alien overstayed their final deportation order.”

The fines could affect roughly 1.4 million illegal aliens who currently have active removal orders. The administration is reportedly encouraging Customs and Border Protection to administer the financial penalties and the seizure of property, though the Department of Justice’s civil asset forfeitures division could also be employed.

Scott Shuchart, a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy official under the Biden administration, said that the fines can be challenged by migrants in court, but that the risk of fines will “project fear” among illegal aliens.

The measure from the Trump administration is the latest method that the Republican president is using to encourage the voluntary departure of illegal aliens from the United States. Immigration experts recently told The Daily Wire that the Trump administration and his allies in Congress could effectively encourage self-deportations by mandating a national employment verification process called E-Verify, which aims to prevent illegal aliens from illegally obtaining jobs with American employers.