Report: Biden Drops $450K Payouts to Border Crossers After Fierce Backlash

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Report: Biden Drops $450K Payouts to Border Crossers After Fierce Backlash

John Binder 16 Dec 2021

President Joe Biden is reportedly dropping plans to provide $450,000 payouts to nearly 1,000 illegal alien families after fierce backlash from the American public.

For months, Biden’s Departments of Justice (DOJ), Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) were in settlement talks with border crossers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who claim they have suffered trauma as a result of former President Trump’s Zero Tolerance policy.

Now, ACLU attorneys involved with those talks have told the Wall Street Journal that the Biden administration has dropped the settlements previously considered to be upwards of $450,000 per border crosser, costing about $1 billion in American taxpayer money and more than was given to the American victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

Instead, the DOJ will litigate the border crossers’ claims individually. ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt told the Journal:

We are hardly naive that politics sometimes plays a role in Justice Department decisions, but it is shameful that it happened when the lives of little children are at stake. History will not look kindly on the Biden administration’s decision not to stand up for these small children.

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/16/report-biden-drops-450k-payouts-to-border-crossers-after-fierce-backlash/

[Right_in_Virginia]

Is he eliminating the payments or reducing them?

[libertybele]

Is he eliminating the payments or erasing them?

Instead 'they' are litigating the border crossers claims individually.  Who is paying for that?

[christian]

Democrats always seem to be desperately looking for more expensive ways of achieving their objectives, regardless of how senselessly expensive their first efforts were going to be.  While hundreds of thousands of Americans live on the street and are ignored by democrats.....FOR THE CHILDREN, FOR THE WOMEN ? ? ?

[Killer Clouds]

These cases should be extremely easy and short.
Are you a US citizen?
No.
It should end right there but just in case we will continue.
Were you in the US legally?
No.
Case dismissed!