Biden’s DHS Chief Seemingly Defends $450K Payouts to Border CrossersJohn Binder 16 Nov 2021
During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, seemingly defended $450,000 payouts to each border crosser subjected to former President Trump’s “Zero Tolerance” policy.
Biden’s Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) are working to settle with a number of border crossers represented by the ACLU, who claim they have suffered trauma as a result of the Zero Tolerance policy.
As part of the settlement, attorneys with the DOJ, DHS, and HHS are considering a plan that would give each border crosser about $450,000 and family units about $1 million. The total cost of the payouts would reach $1 billion.
On Tuesday, Mayorkas seemingly defended such payouts to border crossers.
When asked about the payouts by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Mayorkas said, “I think the American public was united in its condemnation of the family separation policy of this prior administration and it is that public that will constitute a jury in any trial.”
Though Mayorkas told Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) he could not “opine on” what an “appropriate outcome of that litigation” should be but repeatedly denounced the policy, he did not voice opposition to such payouts.
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