President Biden denied on Wednesday that his administration was considering paying migrant families separated at the border during the Trump administration up to $450,000 per person, contradicting reports from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.
“Do you think that might incentivize more people to come over illegally?” Fox News reporter Peter Doocy asked Biden.
“If you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah. But it’s not true,” Biden replied.
Regarding the payments, Biden said, “That’s not going to happen.”
BREAKING: President Biden DENIES plan to pay migrant families separated at the border $450K per individual, calls such reports "GARBAGE" pic.twitter.com/beOl73kDEn
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) November 3, 2021
The Times and Journal reported last week that people familiar with the matter said the administration was considering making the payments as part of lawsuits brought by migrant families whose members were separated at the border during the Trump administration. Not all families would be able to receive a full $450,000 per person, according to the reports.
Several of those families are represented by the American Civil Liberties Union.
“President Biden has agreed that the family separation policy is a historic moral stain on our nation that must be fully remedied,” Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU immigrant rights division, told the Journal. “That remedy must include not only meaningful monetary compensation, but a pathway to remain in the country.”
Several thousand children ranging in age from teenagers to infants were separated from their parents at the border after the Trump administration enacted a “zero-tolerance” policy toward illegal immigration. The policy resulted in prosecution of all adults who entered the country, including those with children.
The former president rescinded the policy in June of 2018. The Biden administration established a task force in February of this year to reunite parents with their children following the separation.
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