ACLU suggests Biden out to lunch over $450K migrant separation payouts
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Via: vic-eldred • 4 years ago • 65 commentsBy: By Steven Nelson and Samuel Chamberlain
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President Biden “may not have been fully briefed about the actions of his very own Justice Department,” the ACLU charged Wednesday, after he labeled as “garbage” a news report that his administration is considering $450,000 per person payouts to families separated after illegally crossing the US-Mexico border.
In a statement, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero warned Biden that he risked “abandoning a core campaign promise to do justice for the thousands of separated families.
“We respectfully remind President Biden that he called these actions ‘criminal’ in a debate with then-President Trump, and campaigned on remedying and rectifying the lawlessness of the Trump administration,” Romero said. “We call on President Biden to right the wrongs of this national tragedy.”
Hours earlier, Fox News correspondent Peter Doocy had asked Biden if the payments, which were first reported last week by the Wall Street Journal, could incentivize even more illegal immigration.
“If you guys keep sending that garbage out? Yeah. But it’s not true,” Biden shot back.
“So this is a garbage report?” Doocy asked.
“Yeah. $450,000 per person — is that what you’re saying?” Biden replied. “That’s not gonna happen.”
However, the Journal reported last week that the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services “are considering payments that could amount to close to $1 million a family” for migrants detained during the Trump administration.
The total amount paid out could reach close to $1 billion to settle lawsuits filed over the separations, which drew public outcry because children were housed apart from their parents.
Family units were separated under then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ April 2018 “zero tolerance” policy of prosecuting all adults who illegally cross the border. Trump signed an order to end family separations in June 2018 after backlash.
Payouts to illegal immigrant families would not be the first controversial legal settlement agreed to by the Biden administration.
The Justice Department last month agreed to restore former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe’s pension and to pay him $200,000 in missed benefits and $540,000 in attorney fees.
McCabe was fired in 2018 at the urging of the FBI’s non-partisan Office of Professional Responsibility after he allegedly lied to FBI agents, the Justice Department inspector general’s office and former FBI Director James Comey about authorizing a leak to the media about a probe of the Clinton Foundation. He was not prosecuted, even though lying to the FBI carries up to five years in prison.
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Evidently, his handlers aren't even bothering to tell Biden what they are doing.
Can't really blame them.
And it's causing Brandon to look more of a failure than we already know he is
There's no saving him now and the worst part is that he selected someone less liked than himself for VP.
Maybe he considered selecting Harris a kind of insurance, a defensive move.
Do you really think he's that smart? All he promised was a black woman.....any black woman!
A person on his/her own has to be smart. The POTUS has an army of advisors.
Her ONLY qualification was that she was a woman. Sheer pandering.
And his advisors are running the show. Their big mistake was allowing Harris. Now they have nothing for 2024.
That was Biden's campaign: pander to blacks & Trump haters and hide in the basement!
Pretty good plan Soros and Rice came up with eh?
2021 will be remembered as the year that the left imposed all of their desires on America. There can be no stepping away from this.
Hey wait.....can we say that? Or is this just a person who happens to have a vagina!
She might identify as a hockey puck for all we know.
I believe the IQ's would be the same.
I think these days you have to say she was a woperson.
No way. She's not a Canadian.
We sure as hell don't want her.
Implausible deniability?
That is what they would call it.
If Trump was the one who cruelly ordered that the children be separated from their parents maybe HE'S the one who should come up with the reparations. I wonder how he'd feel if Barron were taken away from him and put in a foster home.
Won't happen and why in the hell is the solution always to throw money at a problem? Person gets killed, millions awarded. Like that will bring the dead person back. It's all bullshit. Reparations my ass.
Hey, then YOU put the families back together, because that's certainly better than compensation, isn't it.
Sure would be. And not my problem.
And they wouldn't be in this predicament had they not broken the fucking law. Capiche?
Well, Obama did it too,
Btw, how would you keep those incarcerated with their children?
It happens every day, just about everywhere.
Lol .... you beat me to it by about 2 minutes
Weren't the Japanese Americans interned with their children during WW2? I've read stories that indicated that they were. If Obama did it too, why didn't Trump sign an order reversing it as soon as he took office?
They were. Is that what you are recommending?
If Obama did it too, why didn't Trump sign an order reversing it as soon as he took office?
Because, like Obama, Donald Trump didn't see anything wrong with punishing with law breakers.
Deterrent. Plain and simple. But they were told different by the coyotes and handlers of the migration.
They were desperate. I guess it's hard for Americans to know what that feels like. Maybe they didn't think that the kind open arms of 'America, you know, like the words at the 'Statue of Liberty, wouldn't take their children away and throw them into prisons.
why should they come here and be problems for us?
Maybe they thought Biden meant it when as a candidate, he had telegraphed that he wouldn’t, in fact, enforce our laws or secure our border. Migrants came en masse, because they believed Team Biden had invited them.
That's too bad.
Completely different thing Buzz and i think you know that but lets examine why that happened in context with those times.
Japan had just sneak attacked us without declaring war and killed thousands of Americans. A 9-11 type event or worse for the times. We were at war and Roosevelt wasn't sure who could be trusted. IMO he made the right decision for the times. In retrospect it appears to have been overkill but i guess we will never know that for sure since they were interred and therefore were never afforded the ability to be subversive if that's what they were going to do..
Canada had a similar problem with US draft dodgers in the 1960s.
I don't know about China's problems with illegal immigrants. Communist countries seem to have a bigger problem keeping their own population in the country rather than people trying get into the country. The flood of border jumpers on the US border are people escaping communism.
Canada isn't the topic, nor is China, but I DO know that draft dodgers during the Vietnam war had no problem settling in Canada because some of them were my friends and I even created a business partnership with two of them and it became quite successful.
I doubt that most of those you call border jumpers came from Communist countries - dictatorships maybe, authoritarian government maybe, but that isn't Communism.
I think separating children from their parents is cruel and unusual punishment for the children if not for the parents (unless, of course, it is because the parents abuse their children).
You want them locked up/deported together?
What I want is irrelevant. I've simply been playing devil's advocate here, and it did generate quite a few comments for the benefit of your seed.
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If they had stayed were they belonged this would not be an issue
Stayed where they belonged? If that were the rule only the Indians would be populating America and you'd be living where your ancestors came from.
and you would not have been in Canada either
Canada is not the topic, but yes, if immigrants were never permitted to go to Canada it would be populated only by the First Nations.
Separating children was a legal requirement.
The Trump administration was detaining border jumpers longer to process them while they were in detention. The Trump administration was not releasing border jumpers into the country to await processing. The law does not allow children to be mixed with adults held in detention. The law requires separating children from adults to protect the children.
Keep in mind that it was the border jumpers engaged in a criminal act; not the government. The border jumpers broke the law. The border jumpers were the criminals. The law requires that immigrants enter the country through ports of entry. Jumping the border is illegal.
Entering the country through a port of entry is inconvenient; particularly when a large number of people are trying to enter the county. The law doesn't reward a desire for instant gratification. Breaking the law by jumping the border is a shortcut to achieve gratification faster. In the case of immigration, crime pays.
So when the parents were released or deported, why weren't their children reunited with them? Yes, it's a criminal act for people who have never been criminals to take the words on the Statue of Liberty seriously and in desperation seek a better life. I think it's time to remove those words from the Statue of Liberty because they are VERY misleading.
I agree, that poem is not law or public policy
It is a good slogan for a scrapyard or recycling center but not a country that is now overpopulated
Many, many people read those words when they disembarked on Ellis Island, which was a port of entry. The requirement is to enter through a port of entry. The United States has accepted millions of immigrants through ports of entry.
The Statue of Liberty doesn't allow immigrants to just do as they please. Why do the most liberal minded about immigration claim that the US is a nation of laws when it comes time to impeach a President? Why are the most liberal minded trying to protect the ability of border jumpers to break the law?
Should the children be put in adult jails with their lawbreaking parents?
That would be better than separating them from their parents forever, which is what seems to have happened with a lot of them. Do you have kids? How would YOU feel if that happened to you?
I did not commit the crime of illegibly crossing the US border,
They would have howled worse about that
Except it is against the law...................................too
In Canada do the children accompany the single mom's to jail?
Yes and they give them both an order of Poutine for their troubles.
.With a butter tart and a cup of Tim Horton's coffee.
In Canada single moms are jailed only if they commit serious crimes and border jumping would not be considered a crime serious enough to jail anyone. In case of being jailed for a serious crime they would be considered a bad influence on their children anyway. Canada would most likely require house arrest if minor crimes were committed by single moms. House arrest was used in Canada for Weng, the CFO of Huawei in an international fraud case.
Lol ... and a pound of back bacon
First Biden remined me of Uncle Joe from Petticoat Junction, "Uncle Joe, He's a movin kinda slow " but now he is more like Mr MaGoo
Oh Biden .... you've done it again.
Well, it's been fun and I've enjoyed this banter, but it's 10:20 p.m. here now and I'm going to bed.
Sleep well.............
Good night, I'm off to get a coffee
Does his administration even bother letting him know what it’s doing at this point?
I don't think so by the looks of it.............at all.
It did seem like Biden was hearing about this for the time, when asked about it. It might be that either the initial story was bogus or those government departments aren’t really “considering” the idea as much as we were led to believe - if at all.
I’m not sure any government department would even have the authority to make payments like that without an appropriation from Congress. As to that option, even the most progressive members of Congress have to know that would be political suicide.