A senior White House adviser said the Justice Department will set the amount of compensation if it deems that paying migrants separated from their families will save taxpayers money - payments that run as much as $450,000 or more.
Richmond said the Justice Department is making its decision independently of the White House.
". President Biden on Saturday spoke in defense of the payments, which could amount to a $450,000 award for each family separated after illegally crossing into the US, after he initially called reports of the compensation "Garbage."
Biden's comments were a complete turnaround from comments he made Wednesday during an exchange with Fox News' Peter Doocy about a Wall Street Journal report that asylum seekers separated under the Trump administration's "Zero-tolerance" border policy would be compensated up to $1 million per family.
The ACLU is in talks with the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services about the payments that would settle lawsuits filed on behalf of the families who crossed the border illegally and had their children separated from them.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the average demand in each lawsuit adds up to approximately $3.4 million per family, while the settlement offer from the Biden administration amounts to around $450,000 per person and close to $1 million per family.
A group of House Republicans last week introduced a bill that would block the potential payouts to immigrant families.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/07/white-house-says-doj-will-determine-payouts-to-migrant-families/
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