The Biden administration is reportedly considering paying out hundreds of thousands of dollars to migrant families separated at the southern border during the Trump administration, about $1 billion in total.
Approximately 5,500 children were separated at the border and sent to HHS facilities while their parents were referred for prosecution for illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
One DHS attorney involved in the settlement talks lamented in a conference call that migrant families could receive more money than the families of people killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
"There are no limits to what this Administration will do. Everything they have touched re: border security / immigration is wrong for America. But this may be at the top of the list," Wolf wrote on Twitter.
An estimated 5,400 families separated at the border and more than 600 children have yet to reunite as of January.
The zero-tolerance policy rolled out in April 2018, when Session announced the DHS would refer for prosecution all adults who illegally crossed the southern border in an attempt to deter more people from coming, in light of the increased migration of Central Americans.
The policy, which says all adults should be referred for prosecution, has technically remained on the books, even though Border Patrol has not done so for the hundreds of thousands of families who have illegally crossed the border this past year.
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Biden administration weighing $450K-a-person compensation to migrant families separated by Trump
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