The FY2027 President's Budget requests $1.1M for Immigration Enforcement Fines, within Homeland Security's Immigration Enforcement Fines account. That is up 2.1% on the FY2026 figure of $1.0M, which is a continuing-resolution annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.
FY2025–FY2027
| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | enacted | $1.2M |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | $1.0M |
| FY2027 | request | $1.1M |
The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure — the rate a continuing resolution funds at, not an enacted appropriation. The two are different numbers and are not interchangeable. Bases are separate columns and are never summed into one figure.
Homeland Security discretionary budget authority
From the OMB Public Budget Database — clean, summable, and the figure to cite for an agency total. It is the whole of Homeland Security's discretionary request, not a total of the parsed lines above, and this page never adds the two together.
What this funds
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) levies Immigration Enforcement Fines (IEF) against foreign nationals for failure to depart the United States if so ordered. CBP imposes fines on carriers that violate U.S. immigration law when transporting passengers to the United States. These fines fund enforcement activities under Title 8 of the U.S. Code, including identifying, investigating, apprehending, detaining, and removing criminal aliens.
Extracted from Customs and Border Protection, p. 8. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.
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