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US pulls out of settlement talks in family separation suits
katu ^ | 12/162021

Posted on 12/16/2021 12:18:49 PM PST by devane617

Edited on 12/16/2021 1:28:51 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]

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.


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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: illegals
Not sure what led to this back away.
1 posted on 12/16/2021 12:18:49 PM PST by devane617
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To: devane617

It’s called the MID TERMS VARIANT!!


2 posted on 12/16/2021 12:19:55 PM PST by ThereisnotanILGOP
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To: devane617

They stopped it because this CF giveaway was brought to the public’s attention and the Brandon puppeteers caught hell for it.


3 posted on 12/16/2021 12:20:58 PM PST by Savage Rider
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To: devane617
It's hard to understand DOJ's decision other than it was influenced by political considerations

Gee, ya think?
4 posted on 12/16/2021 12:21:07 PM PST by JoSixChip (2020: The year of unreported truths. )
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To: devane617

The Demonrats looked at the polling numbers.


5 posted on 12/16/2021 12:21:18 PM PST by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
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To: ThereisnotanILGOP

“It’s called the MID TERMS VARIANT!!”

Dang that is perfect.


6 posted on 12/16/2021 12:26:47 PM PST by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: devane617

Someone got out their calculator and fainted..............


7 posted on 12/16/2021 12:26:50 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: devane617

The fact the US government was planning to give almost $500,000 to each family “separated”, but not giving that to our military families, regular citizens, etc.

It’s absurd that someone can break the law and profit off of it. If you go to jail for murder, you don’t get to profit off the “How I Did It” book, so why does breaking into the country give you permission to profit?


8 posted on 12/16/2021 12:28:06 PM PST by ro_dreaming ("We seem to have gone from 'We the people' to 'Me, the president' in a scant 8 months." - Me)
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To: Red Badger

A giant Class Action will be created and the attorneys will be Dem backers big-time. Money paid to settle, Attornneys filter money back to Dems. Sweet.


9 posted on 12/16/2021 12:28:58 PM PST by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt

got too greedy.

10 posted on 12/16/2021 12:30:08 PM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman!)
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It will eventually be tacked into some bill that, as usual, the Republicans will overlook the details and sign on...


11 posted on 12/16/2021 1:23:41 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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“Little children were deliberately abused by our government, yet the Biden administration is now going to defend the practice in court,” Gelernt said. “That is shameful.”

Interesting that they only want to pay for the separations done under Trump. Obviously child separation is only abusive and shameful when done by Trump, not when done by Obama or Biden.


12 posted on 12/16/2021 6:37:29 PM PST by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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