Increased civil penalty for failure to depart

Section 274D(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1324d(a)) is amended— (1) by amending the section header to read as follows: Civil penalties for failure to depart; (2) in paragraph (1), by redesignating subparagraphs (A), (B), and (C) as clause (i), (ii), and (iii), respectively; (3) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; (4) by striking (a) In general.—Any alien and inserting the following: (a) In general (1) Conditions Subject to paragraph (2), any alien; (5) in the undesignated matter following subparagraph (B), as redesignated, by striking $500 and inserting $1,996; and (6) by adding at the end the following: (2) Annual inflation adjustment (A) In general Beginning on October 1, 2027, the penalty amounts established under paragraph (1) shall be adjusted annually to account for inflation by using the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI–U) published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the same manner as civil monetary penalties are adjusted under the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 (28 U.S.C. 2461 note). (B) Publication The Secretary of Homeland Security shall publish the inflation-adjusted amounts referred to in subparagraph (A) in the Federal Register not later than December 15 of each year, and such adjusted amounts shall apply to penalties assessed on or after January 1 of the following year..