Americans Sickened by Nuclear Tests Got a Pittance While Illegals Stand to Profit Handsomely
The government cares more for illegal aliens that American 'downwinders'
By Ronald W. Mortensen on November 5, 2021
President Biden recently appeared to deny a Wall Street Journal report that the administration is considering paying illegal immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation for the government subjecting them to “lasting psychological trauma.” But White House spokesmen later backtracked, saying the president was open to payments to illegals, and the Justice Department and the ACLU confirmed that negotiations were ongoing as to the size of the payout.
The report was greeted with outrage, given that even a smaller payment would still likely be greater than the “death gratuity” paid to the families of fallen soldiers or the amount received by some 9/11 families. Such callousness is consistent with the long-standing practice of federal officials often treating non-citizens, including those who violate our laws, better than the Americans they are sworn to protect and defend. In fact, when it comes to American citizens, federal officials often fight to the bitter end to deny them compensation for the harm that their government does to them.
Take for example, the case of the hundreds of thousands of American citizens, including me, who lived downwind from the above-ground nuclear tests conducted by the United States in the 1950s and 1960s—the “downwinders”. We were sickened and thousands of our family members, friends, and neighbors died terrible deaths from the effects of the radioactive fallout.
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