Posted on 11/13/2021 2:31:09 PM PST by T Ruth
The ACLU sued the United States for money on behalf of illegal immigrants for being separated from their children when they were caught and detained at the border. The Wall Street Journal reported a few weeks ago that the Department of Justice was considering settling the case for about $450,000 per individual – a settlement amounting to over a million dollars in the case of a family of three and over two million for a family of five.
The basis for the ACLU’s lawsuit on behalf of the immigrants is not clear. Most legal experts agree that whatever the morality of putting children into shelters, it is lawful. That’s what happens when parents commit a crime and are incarcerated. The lawsuit appears designed to establish new judge-made law to the effect that when the crime is illegal immigration, the children must be incarcerated with the parents (who may or may not actually be their parents) in an adult prison.
That of course would be untenable. Which is why immigration activists are pushing it. Being a generous people, Americans would not allow the incarceration of children in adult prisons, and so the effect would be to prevent the incarceration of the parents too.
Joe Biden characteristically professed no knowledge of this. In answer to a reporter’s question, he snapped that the WSJ’s report was “garbage.” The ACLU immediately issued a statement saying Biden was wrong. The administration a few days later admitted as much, but stated that the $450,000 figure was incorrect.
The net effect is this. In a case seeking compensation from the U.S. government with taxpayer money on a novel and unproven legal theory, the lawyers responsible for representing the American people have already thrown in the towel.
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If this is a class action lawsuit how much does the UCLU skim off the top for their take over what the lawyers get for the case?
99.9999%.
Seems to me that consent decrees and lawsuit settlements are getting out of hand. They’ve been used to weaken election integrity and are now being used to grift off of the US taxpayer without congressional approval.
This has been going on for decades.
When you want to know just how things got changed so quickly in our nation look no further then the collusion between those in charge and activist groups.
It goes like this. Those in charge want to make changes but they know the changes would be opposed by the voters so they collude with some activist group and get sued. The accused put up little or no defense and the court rules in favor of the activist.
Now those in charge can make the changes they want and can blame someone else for being forced to do it.
You can tell if there is collusion by just how quickly the changes are made.
It needs to be pointed out that the lawsuit doesn’t cover children separated by the Obama administration.
Heaven forbid that Trump tried to make sure kids were with their parents and not part of a human trafficking chain.
From Wash Po....
During his administration, President Trump put an end to this practice, of the taxpayers funding Leftist groups from staged and farcical “lawsuits.”
With the help of corrupt judges, they abuse the judicial system to get around appropriations from Congress.
Conspire to sue and settle. The left has been doing this for years,especially on environmental issues.
bump.
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