Pinkerton: The Destructive Left-Wing Logic Behind Biden’s Embrace of $450K Reparations for Border CrossersJames P. Pinkerton 6 Nov 2021
Sweet Money From Uncle Sugar?
Did you hear the one about the Biden administration’s plan to pay illegal aliens $450,000? It’s not a joke, even if President Biden, on November 3, called it “garbage” and “not true.” And yet as we shall see, the plan was true, and it did come from his administration. So while Biden might not like the payoff plan, at least not anymore, it was a real plan bubbling up from within his appointees. And despite Biden’s blustery denial, it’s still possible, even probable, that big payouts could be forthcoming. In fact, on November 4, White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre mostly walked back her boss’s words from the day before, now asserting that the Biden administration was “perfectly comfortable” with payments.
So which it it?
Is the Biden administration for or against the $450,000 per person deal? All we know for sure is that back on October 28, The Wall Street Journal had the scoop on the Biden administration’s plan for the half-million-dollar deal. The headline read: “U.S. in Talks to Pay Hundreds of Millions to Families Separated at Border: Government is considering payments of $450,000 per person affected by Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy in 2018.”
As the article detailed, the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services are confronted with some 940 formal legal claims for damages from individuals and families—all of them foreign nationals—that were separated at the border that they tried to cross. This litigation stems from policies pursued by the Trump administration in 2018. (These policies, by the way, were the same as Obama administration policies, but that’s a tale for another time.)
The litigants’ claims are being brokered by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and are bolstered by entrepreneurial tort lawyers, sniffing the prospect of huge contingency fees for these cases. According to the Journal, there could be another 4,600 or so claims, and the claims filed so far are demanding about $3.4 million per family. Thus the federal government’s potential liability could run into the many billions of dollars.
Okay, so that’s how the Biden administration was seeing it, and maybe still does: It’s a good idea to settle, as opposed to go to trial. And besides, if the Bidenites do settle, they figure that they can heap all blame on the dreaded Donald Trump and his even more dreaded top immigration adviser, Stephen Miller.
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