As if we are not enough of a financial crisis, the Biden administration wants to fork out a whopping $450k per person to families separated at the southern border.
Apparently this money is to appease migrants who filed lawsuits, claiming psychological damage due to separation from family members at the border.
Officials from the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services are considering the payments that could total close to $1 million for two people within the same family.
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.
The Biden Administration are claiming this was due to former President Donald Trump’s border policy that was enacted in April 2018 and was withdrawn two months later after much controversy in June.
The ‘zero-tolerance policy’ applied to families who illegally crossed the US-Mexico border to claim asylum. Since children could not be detained alongside their parents, the families were separated, sometimes with no way to track and reunited them later on, government investigations found.
Now, many families are released into the interior of the US and asked to appear in court at a later date. Some are deported under Title 42, the coronavirus public health policy.
Lawsuits are claiming the separated children were housed in poor conditions, and sometimes suffered from malnutrition or heat exhaustion or were kept in freezing cold rooms and offered little medical care.
Lawyers for the families argue the children have suffered long-lasting trauma from the anxiety of being without their parents.
They seek a range of payouts, averaging $3.4 million per family.
So they, came into America illegally and yet we have to compensate them with large sums of money because they chose to risk their family’s lives coming across the border.
How does this make any sense?
Meanwhile, we have rampant homeless people over-running streets in many states and yet no one is addressing them or helping. The government claims there are no funds for the homeless. Yet they can magically make money appear for illegal migrants.
The Biden administration keeps painting this cruel picture of how poorly the migrants are being treated. What about the people who already live in America? Apparently their lives don’t matter as much.
Earlier this month, Michelle Brane, head of the Family Reunification Task Force, said that the Biden team had only been able to reunite 52 of the over 1,000 families separated under the policy who have not yet found each other.
“We estimate that over 1,000, somewhere between 1,000, 1,500, maybe more remain separated,” Brane said on CBS’ 60 Minutes on Oct. 12. “It’s very hard to know because there’s no record. So there’s nowhere to go to find out who was separated or not. It really is case-by-case detective work.”
There is no record because once again they are in our country ILLEGALLY!
Some government lawyers are outraged at the payments under discussion, which they view as excessive for people who knowingly broke the law by crossing the border.
One government lawyer threatened to remove his name from the case in protest of the potential settlement offer.
One government attorney said that the payouts could amount to more than the government paid to the families of 9/11 victims. Another disputed that comparison, as the US government had not been directly responsible for the 9/11 attack. Payouts averaged $2 million, tax-free, per family.
A record 1.7 million families were encountered trying to enter the US illegally in the 2021 fiscal year, ending Sept. 30, up from a record 1.6 million in 2000. Over 479,000 families were encountered, along with an unusually high number of unaccompanied children, 147,000.
Many Republicans are outraged by the Biden Administration’s actions.
“I just about fell out of my chair when I read this. For the sake of our country, I hope this reporting is in error. This would be an OUTRAGE,” Sen. Lindsey Graham.
“UNACCEPTABLE Report says Biden admin considering payments of 450k per person 2ppl who crossed the border ILLEGALLY Those are taxpayers dollars We should not be paying anything to ppl who break our laws,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote on Twitter.
“Joe Biden wants to raise your taxes, but give $450,000 to illegal immigrants. Biden is putting America last,” said Rep. Ken Buck.
“Joe Biden gave Americans a $1300 check but wants to give illegal immigrants $450,000, which is more than the 9/11 victims compensation fund. Amidst rising inflation, this is how he wants to spend your money. Priorities,” Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., wrote on Twitter.
This president needs to be Impeached ASAP.He is literally out of his mind and why are we allowing this to happen. He is destroying our country and no one is stopping him. What he is doing is downright scary.Our own people are homeless and most are living paycheck to paycheck and we are paying ILLEGALS large sums of money because their families got separated .They shouldn’t be here to begin with and yet they are suing us.This is insane snd needs to be stopped.
Why is impeachment always the answer when people don’t like the President? They said that about Bush, Obama, did impeach Trump, which did nothing. Why just not vote him out of office. I have never agreed with Presidents but I either voted for them or didn’t.
Because we the people are getting hurt financially in every way Biden (his puppet masters) can conceive of. We can’t take two more years of his outrageous, destructive, irresponsible domestic policies that hurt every American citizen. Additionally, the increase in crime in virtually every corner of this great Country further endangers the safety of every one of our citizens and are directly linked to Biden’s “soft on crime” policy’s. Impeachment is the only avenue available to permanently remove this totally destructive administration from power now!!
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Joe Biden and Every Single Person in his administration Should Be impeached and sent to Prison for Life !!
With No Chance for Parole !!! These people are so Stupid and Ignorant !!!
I got separated from my family at 7 years old. Where is my $45000.00 ? Where’s the application, I need to sign up !
I was wondering what happened to this story. A year ago October is the last article on the subject I could find. They recieved a stiff backlash when this first came out, I just assumed the paid it out quietly. They were also talking about giving them citizenship I
Along with the money. BTW, that’s per family member so a family of 6 gets 6 X $450,000.
We should never have elected these DEM people who are in the give away mode which is $450,000.00 “per illegal person” to force their way across the U.S. border from their foreign countries to live in ours. What do they smoke at the White House these daze……Do the “sane” people in our country actually understand what the current administration is up to ?
We didn’t elect Biden!!! The election was stolen from Trump!!! We should be using this money to stop the rampant voter fraud in this country!!! And then use any extra to build concentration camps for Democrats after Trump is reinstated!!!
What a no good useless son-of-a-bitch. Hopefully The Dunce drops dead soon, maybe in the shower with his daughter !
this is craziness. send them back to their countries of origin and close the matter
The separation at the boarder began under Obama. He had the cages built to separate families, not Trump! You may not know that because our media has chosen to suppress any news they deem reflects badly on Liberals or Progressives; ie, the Socialist Party formally known as Democratic. Additionally, the separations that occurred are the result of standard procedures designed to protect minors from harm since a substantial number of them were not children of the adults accompanying them, but rather using them as pawns to facilitate their own admissions. No one forced them to cross our boarder, and once they were made aware of the separation, they were free to go back to their own countries without any restrictions imposed by US Officials. So why do we owe compensation of any kind to these families. Any separation was their direct responsibility, and the US has no reason to compensate them financially for their decision to attempt to enter our Country in my opinion.
You are all sick cowards. Every separated family deserves more than they will ever get. Trump should pay and since he can’t, us tax payers should cover the rest willingly.
You have lost what little mind you had
The Govt has seperated me from reality since 2020.
Do I qualify for $450k?
SEND THEM ALL BACK WITH THEIR CHILDREN ALONG WITH BIDEN & his follows to the other country & leave the true AMERICANS ALONE WE FOUGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY THEY JUST TRY TO TAKE IT AFTER THE BATTLE.
He did it with obungler and now he wants us to pay for it>