Posted on 11/04/2021 4:49:07 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
White House principal deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Thursday that President Biden is 'perfectly comfortable' with cash payouts to migrant families separated at the border, but insisted the settlements won't be as high as $450,000.
Fox News' Peter Doocy asked Jean-Pierre during the briefing what Biden meant when he called the reports of payments 'garbage' after the ACLU claimed that he 'hadn't been briefed properly.
Jean-Pierre, standing in for Jen Psaki after her COVID diagnosis, responded by saying that settlements were happening, and he was responding to the claim that they could be close to half-a-million dollars.
'If it saves taxpayer dollars and puts the disastrous history of the previous administration's use of "zero tolerance" and family separation behind us, the President is perfectly comfortable with the Department of Justice settling with the individuals and families who are currently in litigation with the US government,' she said.
She wouldn't specify the amount the Biden administration would spend in the settlements and referred all other questions to the Department of Justice.
The American Civil Liberties Union tore into Biden on Wednesday night after he denied reports that his White House is planning on paying separated migrants $450,000 each or $1 million per family.
The head of the ACLU said the 78-year-old president's statement means he either hasn't been 'full briefed' on the matter or is 'abandoning' his promise to undo Donald Trump's more strict immigration laws.
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Supposedly the ACLU was contacted by the feds right after the exchange with Doocy that now the maximum payout couldn’t exceed $450,000. $449,999 would be fine I guess. I’d like to know where the $450,000 figure came from originally, because it sure looks like this is a completely arbitrary decision made just so Biden wouldn’t be embarrassed and the dems hurt politically.
FReegards
I’ll settle for a bus ticket back home for all of them...
Any party to paying this need be hanged.
Scott Adams suggested awarding each of the “tragic victims” a Hunter Biden original painting, worth $450,000.
Wounded combat vets should go to Mexico and “sneak” across the border claiming to be illegals.
They will get more from Poopy Pants Joe’s Feral Government as illegals than they do as Wounded Warriors.
A windfall like that will result in what?
Yep, more separated families than American separated families.
You get what you pay for. And you get a heckuva lot of it when you pay a heckuva lot.
bttt
Anybody besides me getting the feeling that FJB is more Obama than Obama?
Why do you suppose that is?
They deserve nothing more than one of Biden’s fully loaded diapers.
Just heard on Fox news that the 450,000 payment settlement to illegal immigrants it’s a done deal. I am fuming I am sick and tired of this shit. And they’re still pushing through our border as we speak.
Nothing better to flush Democrats from office a year from now!
Have you noticed there are no leaks in this Commie White House
That’s because all the employees there are in lockstep with communist goals.
It won’t help by then in a year’s span we’ll have at least 10 million already crossed over...the caravans are massive. We need to rise up as a people and guard our own borders guns in towed because our government isn’t doing diddly squat. Our children’s future it’s at stake here and if we don’t rise up we are royally screwed.Did you watch the violence that’s happening against the Mexican police with the caravans thugs. They literally violently with sticks rocks ram themselves through the police line kicking hurting military guards trying to make a wall....these people are vicious. It reminds me of Arabs in the Middle East when they get out of control and start throwing rocks etc at those in authority. These vicious people are going to be in our neighborhoods and we have to stop them at the border. I pray to God that there are people that are willing to go to the border and stand guard along with our border patrol and national guard. They will turn around and go back to Mexico if they see a force of Americans before them.
America is one big fustercluck under these morons.
Barack Obama and Valerie Jarrett.
State laws are being broken, too. Why are GOP governors not charging these deadbeat wetback parents with child endangerment, etc.
I would says he flops a much higher percentage of the time...
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