President Joe Biden was wrong when he said the regime won’t give illegal-alien “families” separated at the border as much as $1 million in damages.
The Justice Department plans to do exactly that, his deputy press secretary said yesterday. In fact, Haiti Joe is quite “comfortable” with the plan to shaft the taxpayers.
The turn-around isn’t all that surprising given the elderly president’s obvious cognitive decline. But for the White House to tacitly admit that Biden is clueless is a rather bracing reminder of just who occupies the most powerful position in what used to be called the “Free World.”
Biden: Story Is Garbage
News about the settlement with the illegals and their subversive lawyers at the American Civil Liberties Union surfaced last week in the Wall Street Journal, which reported that some department attorneys had quit over it.
The figures are mind boggling: $450,000 per illegal; $1 million per family. Total tab for the taxpayers: $1 billion.
DOJ thinks it should pay the illegals because they suffered so terribly when they jumped the border illegally during the Trump years, then underwent the life-shattering trauma of “family separation.”
And money is just part of the deal. The ACLU expects Biden to give the illegals permanent legal residence.
In other words, crime pays. Jump the border, become an instant millionaire with legal residence.
Days later when Fox News’s Peter Doocy asked about it, Biden looked surprised. Doocy wondered whether all that ill-gotten booty might just give more illegals the idea to rush the border.
“If you guys keep sending that garbage out, yeah, but it’s not true,” Biden said:
Doocy: So this is a garbage report?
Biden: Yeah, $450,000 per person, is that what you said? That’s not gonna happen.
Press Secretary: Yep
Yeah, it is gonna happen.
Deputy Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, a Haitian immigrant by way of Martinique, said so when she answered this question from Doocy: “He says it’s not going to happen,” Doocy said. “But the ACLU says that it is. So, who is right?”
Replied Pierre:
So, if it saves taxpayer dollars and puts the disastrous history of the previous administration’s use of zero tolerance and family separation behind us, the President is perfectly comfortable with the Department of Justice settling with the individuals and families who are currently in litigation with the U.S. government.
You know, DOJ can obviously speak more to that process. The President was — what he was reacting to was the dollar figure that was mentioned — that you mentioned to him yesterday.
As press accounts today indicate — there’s been press accounts on this — DOJ made clear to the plaintiffs that the reported figures are higher than anywhere that a settlement can land.
In other words, Biden’s out to lunch.
When Doocy asked Jean-Pierre what changed from when Biden called the suggestion “garbage,” the leftist pivoted and blamed President Trump:
“First of all, let’s remember how we got here, how we got to a place where we’re dealing with families being separated,” she said:
This is coming from the last administration’s cruel, inhuman, immoral — immoral policies against — against just people. It’s separating children from their families — 18-month-olds, 2-year-olds, 5-year-olds from their families.
How we got here is because of the last administration. This is what we’re trying to deal with here in this administration. So, let’s be very clear of how we got here and what’s happening.
Amusingly, the ACLU told the truth.
“President Biden may not have been fully briefed about the actions of his very own Justice Department as it carefully deliberated and considered the crimes committed against thousands of families separated from their children as an intentional governmental policy,” said Anthony Romero, the leftist outfit’s chieftain.
Even if he had been fully briefed, he likely wouldn’t remember.
For the record, the Obama Regime, in which Biden served as vice president, committed those same “crimes.” It too followed the “cruel, inhuman, immoral” separation policy.
Biden probably doesn’t remember that, either.
H/T: Breitbart
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