Posted on 12/16/2021 4:49:37 AM PST by Liz
A group of Republican lawmakers have moved to Joe Biden’s administration from potentially paying up to $450,000 in taxpayer money to some illegal aliens who were separated at the border under former President Trump’s “zero tolerance” policies.
Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Rick Scott (R-FL), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and Mike Braun (R-IN) on Tuesday introduced the Congressional Review of Agency Legal Settlements Act. According to Lankford’s office, the bill “empowers Congress to ensure agencies don’t skirt the formal rulemaking processes of the Administration Procedures Act and misuse federal tax dollars for exorbitant financial awards in legal settlements.”
“If the Biden administration is going to propose settlements as a way to pay people off, like the $450,000 settlements for illegal border crossers, then the agreements should be subject to congressional disapproval and nullification just like other ill-advised executive actions like vaccine mandates,” Lankford said in a statement.
Reports emerged in October that the Biden administration planned to pay members of families separated at the border as much as $450,000 apiece. A short time after the reports, Biden said they were “garbage” and “That’s not going to happen” — but a day later White House Principal Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president was “perfectly comfortable” with giving payouts to separated families although she did not confirm an amount.
“The president was – what he was reacting to was the dollar figure that was mentioned,” Jean-Pierre said.
When Biden was questioned about the reports by the media at a White House briefing, Biden exploded.
“I’d like to ask you, real quick, sir: Where do you stand?” a reporter asked. “You said last week that this report about migrant families at the border getting payments was ‘garbage.’”
“No, I didn’t say that,” Biden claimed.
“Let’s get it straight. You said everybody coming across the border gets $500- — $450,000,” Biden said.
“Now, here’s the thing: If in fact, because of the outrageous behavior of the last administration, you were coming across the border, whether it was legal or illegal, and you lost your child — you lost your child — it’s gone — you deserve some kind of compensation, no matter what the circumstance,” Biden yelled. “What that will be, I have no idea. I have no idea. Yes.”
Here’s the interaction that Biden had with a reporter earlier that week where he called the reports “garbage”:
REPORTER: Mr. President, as you were leaving for your overseas trip, there were reports that were surfacing that your administration is planning to pay illegal immigrants who are separated from their families at the border up to $450,000 each, possibly a million dollars per family. Do you think that that might incentivize more people to come over illegally?
JOE BIDEN, PRESIDENT: If you guys keep sending that garbage out? Yeah. But it’s not true.
REPORTER: So this is a garbage report?
BIDEN: Yeah.
REPORTER: Okay. So–
BIDEN: $450,000 per person? Is that what you’re saying?
REPORTER: That was separated from a family member at the border under the last administration.
BIDEN: That’s not going to happen.
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Biden seems to be a liar, as well as many other negative labels.
I’m still amazed at the possibility even being mentioned. I’m law abiding, worked 31 1/2 years. Never in the past or now have I came into such an amount of money at one time..not even close.
That it would be given to border jumpers…..
Didn’t this used to be a crazy conspiracy theory?
No Tucker, the real problem is the 81m voters both actual and imagined. What are we going to do with these people so disconnected from reality??
The real problem is that they got away with stealing the election.
I bet not one of them gotta covid shot.
I think that in this instance he did not lie. He was caught off guard by a question that he honestly was not aware of. His handlers didn't inform him of that plan before he spoke. He is an empty suit and useful idiot for barack. And his (ahem) loving wife lets him be used as a pawn and be ridiculed in the eyes of the world.....
The DC criminals never stop their creations of pools of money with no hard designations of “exactly” who will receive it. This offers the perfect opportunity for the money to be directed and redirected without trace. Just a hunch, maybe that is how some in the House and Senate became millionaires while in office. Ya think!
This criminal marxist junta is astounding. Someone breaks the law to illegally enter the country, and the anti-Americans just give them nearly half a million dollars. Why not just defend the borders instead? Make them observe the immigration laws. We have them and they work when enforced.
RATS shouldn’t worry. There will be enough Assistant RATS to push it through.
Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Rick Scott (R-FL), Pat Toomey (R-PA), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and Mike Braun (R-IN)
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All of these Bush League Republicans would vote for amnesty when it comes up, don’t be fooled.
NONE of them supported Trump building the fence.
The real problem is the Assistant Democrats that assisted the Big Steal.
They only got away with it because of so many Assistant Democrats wearing R jerseys.
But they don’t want to keep them out. Have to draw the line somewhere.
You got that 100% right!! About 50% of the GOP secretly detest us.
HARD to punish a Dominion Voting machine.
US pulls out of settlement talks in family separation suits
katu ^ | 12/162021
Posted on 12/16/2021, 3:18:49 PM by devane617
The U.S. government withdrew Thursday from settlement negotiations to end lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who were forcibly separated under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance border policy, the American Civil Liberties Union said.
Justice Department officials informed lawyers for the plaintiffs in a conference call that the government would not offer a global settlement in family separation cases and will defend each individual suit in court, said ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt.
The decision comes after eight months of negotiations and weeks after reports of a proposed settlement that would include payments of several hundred thousand dollars to each family sparked outrage among Biden administration critics in Congress and elsewhere.
Gelernt said no explanation was given. “It’s hard to understand DOJ’s decision other than it was influenced by political considerations,” he said.
Joe Biden Flying Illegal Aliens, Deported by Trump, Back to U.S.
brietbart ^ | 12/162021
Posted on 12/16/2021, 3:09:44 PM by devane617
President Joe Biden’s administration is flying illegal aliens, previously deported by former President Donald Trump’s administration, back to the United States.
This week, National Public Radio (NPR) reported that two previously deported illegal aliens, Claudio Rojas of Argentina and Jean Montrevil of Haiti, have since been brought back to the U.S. after they claimed that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency retaliated against them for their open borders advocacy.
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