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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How much will they pay me if I rob a bank? Murder someone? Rape? Simple Assault?
$450,000.00 x how many different times you were deported.
How do they know who to send the checks to? These people didn’t have ID.
The overworked and overtaxed ER nurse who voted Democrat last time, needs to be fully aware that her tax dollars are going for this.
$4.50 would be too much.
THEY ARE INVADERS !!!!!!!
Does this work in reverse?
Thinking of going to the Mexican border and stepping across .
Will the Mexican govt pay me $450,000 or just shoot me?
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