# IRCA; Unlawful employment of aliens, subsequent order (per such alien) — Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies

For IRCA; Unlawful employment of aliens, subsequent order (per such alien), agency is DOJ; statutory authority is 8 U.S.C. 1324a(e)(4)(A)(iii); maximum penalty is 28,619; minimum penalty is 8,586,, recorded from its source on 2026-08-10.

- **Agency:** DOJ _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **Violation:** IRCA; Unlawful employment of aliens, subsequent order (per such alien) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Statutory authority:** 8 U.S.C. 1324a(e)(4)(A)(iii) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Maximum penalty:** 28,619 _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **Minimum penalty:** 8,586, _(verified: appears in the quote below)_

## What the source says

> <https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/8/1324a> 8 U.S.C. 1324a(e)(4)(A)(iii) | IRCA; Unlawful employment of aliens, subsequent order (per such alien) | <https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/section-68.52#p-68.52(c)(1)(iii)> 28 CFR 68.52(c)(1)(iii) | Min 8,369, Max 27,894 | Min 8,586, Max 28,619

## Source

- https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-28/chapter-I/part-85/section-85.5

Last verified: 2026-08-10. Review by: 2027-02-26.
Part of [Federal civil penalty maximums — current inflation-adjusted amounts across agencies](https://referencesource.org/federal-civil-penalty-maximums/).