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Biden Administration Halts Settlement Talks On Family Separation, ACLU Says, After Blowback Over Considering $450,000 Payments
Forbes ^ | Dec 16, 2021 | Joe Walsh

Posted on 12/16/2021 4:50:22 PM PST by 11th_VA

The Department of Justice is no longer negotiating to settle lawsuits from migrant families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border under a Trump Administration policy, the American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday, after the Biden Administration drew criticism for reportedly weighing $450,000 payments.

The DOJ has cut off settlement talks with parents and children who say they faced severe trauma after immigration officials separated them at the southern border, and now plans to litigate any family separation suits, ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt told Forbes (the ACLU represents plaintiffs in one family separation lawsuit).

The DOJ did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The decision comes over a month after the Wall Street Journal reported the Biden Administration had discussed settling the lawsuits by offering up to $450,000 to each person separated from their family, though the exact payment amounts were in flux.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aclu; aliens; democrats; invasion; migrantlawsuits
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Let's hope it's true ...
1 posted on 12/16/2021 4:50:22 PM PST by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Thank God if it is true.

That is one of the most outrageous, despicable proposals by our federal government ever.


2 posted on 12/16/2021 4:51:26 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: 11th_VA

more commentary:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4021817/posts


3 posted on 12/16/2021 4:51:54 PM PST by devane617 (RUN FOR LOCAL ELECTED OFFICE! COUNCIL,SCHOOL BOARD, ETC.)
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To: 11th_VA

Ya think?


4 posted on 12/16/2021 4:53:25 PM PST by Brandonmark (Made America Great Again! 11.08.2016 - A DAY OF RENEWAL is a )
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To: 11th_VA

Scary thing is they actually thought this was a good idea....


5 posted on 12/16/2021 4:55:25 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: 11th_VA

This way they can quietly settle confidentially with each individual plaintiff, and sail under the radar of the media. Just a tactical adjustment. The criminals will still get their half million apiece.


6 posted on 12/16/2021 4:55:56 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

How many of those ‘children’ were scattered over multiple adults in attempts to APPEAR they were ‘family’?????

How many illegals ALREADY in the USA took some kids in for other family members so they could attempt to keep kids here IF adults were sent back?

This whole payment idea was grotesque from the beginning.


7 posted on 12/16/2021 4:59:36 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: ealgeone

Just like them nominating the hard-core Soviet commie Omarova to be Comptroller.


8 posted on 12/16/2021 5:02:39 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (81 million votes...and NOT ONE "Build Back Better" hat)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

it’s jarret driving this mess. it certainly isn’t biden....he’s in bed by now heavily sedated.


9 posted on 12/16/2021 5:03:40 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The Biden Administration is causing me, a taxpayer, trauma. How much am I entitled to?


10 posted on 12/16/2021 5:08:07 PM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: 11th_VA

Give them each a $100 gift card good at any Walmart — in Mexico—and a bus ticket to Mexico City.


11 posted on 12/16/2021 5:12:45 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: 11th_VA

I’m pretty sure the homies in the hood would be pretty upset if they started handing half a million to illegals. They want their cut too....


12 posted on 12/16/2021 5:23:04 PM PST by vespa300
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To: hinckley buzzard

Exactly. The only change will be the media coverage of it.


13 posted on 12/16/2021 5:26:29 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: 11th_VA

I’m a federal employee and have worked on our litigated cases with the DOJ for years (when my agency and the Secretary is sued). I’ve noticed a trend (starting with Trump actually but accelerating under Biden) of our OGC no longer fighting to represent our agency zealously and win cases but to settle.

Judges want settlements and get angry when the parties can’t settle.

So I’m not surprised here that the DOJ is settling—but the amounts discussed are just too high.


14 posted on 12/16/2021 5:41:31 PM PST by olivia3boys
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To: hinckley buzzard

I’m sure they had some plan that a lot of this payment money would enrich someone, and not just the illegal aliens and their lawyers.


15 posted on 12/16/2021 5:42:10 PM PST by Wilhelm Tell (True or False? This is not a tag line.)
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To: 11th_VA

Its not over

Waiting for people to forget/stuff to die down


16 posted on 12/16/2021 5:43:16 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Biden Administration Halts Settlement Talks On Family Separation, ACLU Says, After Blowback Over Considering $450,000 Payments

Now if they can announce that ACTIONS have ceased as well!

17 posted on 12/16/2021 6:12:00 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: olivia3boys
I’m a federal employee and have worked on our litigated cases with the DOJ for years (when my agency and the Secretary is sued). I’ve noticed a trend (starting with Trump actually but accelerating under Biden) of our OGC no longer fighting to represent our agency zealously and win cases but to settle.

There should be no settlement option when FedGov (or even lower governments) is a party. Let the state prove its case, no option to weasel out or sneak free money to certain people.
18 posted on 12/16/2021 6:13:33 PM PST by Svartalfiar
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To: 11th_VA

So will they do it anyway and keep it quiet?


19 posted on 12/16/2021 6:19:50 PM PST by Trillian
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To: 11th_VA

Thank God!!! This was as infuriating as the botched Afghanistan fiasco.

It’s like America’s sworn enemies are running the entire fedfov.


20 posted on 12/16/2021 7:06:15 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (Convention Of States is our only hope now! Desantis 2024!!!)
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