Joe Biden Says Families Separated at Border Won't Be Receiving $450,000 Settlements

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Joe Biden Says Families Separated at Border Won't Be Receiving $450,000 Settlements

4 November 2021

President Joe Biden is playing hardball with migrant families that were separated at the border by the last administration. On Wednesday, the president said that these families would not be receiving $450,000 payments as compensation for being split up. The Wall Street Journal first reported last week that the U.S. Department of Justice was considering the $450,000 payouts to settle lawsuits with families who'd sued the U.S. government over the separations that had occurred under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy for illegal border crossings. These lawsuits allege that the policy—which saw the parents arrested and the children taken into ...

Joe Biden Says Families Separated at Border Won't Be Receiving $450,000 Settlements

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Now Biden DEFENDS migrant compensation payments he called 'garbage' three days ago: Says families separated at border 'deserve some kind of compensation' but has 'no idea' if it will be as much as $450,000

6 November 2021

• Biden was speaking at a press conference touting the passage of the $1.2trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill when he was asked about the payments
• Biden was forceful in saying he would try to get payments to those families, criticizing former President Donald Trump's border policy.
• 'You deserve some kind of compensation, no matter what the circumstance,' he said of separated families. 'What that will be, I have no idea'
• Last week it was revealed that officials from the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services are considering payments
• The American Civil Liberties Union, which represents the separated families, has identified about 5,500 children separated from parents at the border
• The total potential payout could cost $1 billion or more

President Joe Biden furiously defended a plan to send payments to families separated at the southern border Saturday, days after calling a report that the payments were as much as $450,000 'garbage.' Biden was speaking at a press conference touting the passage of the $1.2trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill when he was asked about the payments. Fox News' David Spunt asked: 'You said last week, that this report about migrant families at the border getting payments was garbage.' Biden interrupted: 'No I didn't say that, let's get it straight, you said everybody coming across the border gets $450,000.' Biden then was ...

Biden vigorously DEFENDS compensation to families separated at border

Biden was speaking at a press conference touting the passage of the $1.2trillion infrastructure bill when he was asked about the payments and reiterated that they would not be $450,000.

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