{"id":1128227,"date":"2021-12-17T11:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128227"},"modified":"2021-12-17T11:43:34","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:43:34","slug":"report-biden-drops-450k-payouts-to-border-crossers-after-fierce-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-biden-drops-450k-payouts-to-border-crossers-after-fierce-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Biden Drops $450K Payouts to Border Crossers After Fierce Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-biden-drops-450k-payouts-to-border-crossers-after-fierce-backlash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1128227&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/biden-border-crisis-getty-ap-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">President Joe Biden is reportedly dropping plans to provide $450,000 payouts to nearly 1,000 illegal alien families after fierce backlash from the American public.<\/p>\n<p>For months,&nbsp;Biden\u2019s Departments of Justice (DOJ), Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) were in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/28\/report-biden-considers-paying-border-crossers-450k-each-in-reparations\/\">settlement talks<\/a> with border crossers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), who claim they have suffered trauma as a result of former President Trump\u2019s Zero Tolerance policy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Now, ACLU attorneys involved with those talks <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/w3Zzo\">have told<\/a> the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> that the Biden administration has dropped the settlements previously considered to be upwards of $450,000 per border crosser, costing about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/01\/analysis-biden-proposal-could-turn-illegal-alien-families-into-millionaires\/\">$1 billion<\/a> in American taxpayer money and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/29\/bidens-450k-reparations-for-border-crossers-exceeds-payments-to-9-11-victims-american-military-families\/\">more than<\/a> was given to the American victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the DOJ will litigate the border crossers\u2019 claims individually. ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt told the<em> Journal:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>We are hardly naive that politics sometimes plays a role in Justice Department decisions, but it is shameful that it happened when the lives of little children are at stake. History will not look kindly on the Biden administration\u2019s decision not to stand up for these small children.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In the settlement talks, about 940 illegal alien families had filed claims against the federal government and each was asking for an average of $3.4 million as a result of their being subjected to the Zero Tolerance policy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>As Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/23\/joe-bidens-plan-for-450k-payouts-to-border-crossers-stalls-amidst-backlash\/\">recently reported<\/a>, the talks had stalled as a result of massive public outcry with polls showing overwhelming opposition to the payouts.<\/p>\n<p>About&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/21\/poll-over-6-in-10-americans-oppose-bidens-450k-for-border-crossers\/\">63 percent<\/a>&nbsp;of Americans told CBS News\/YouGov pollsters that they are opposed to the payouts, including 64 percent of swing voters, and even 4-in-10 voters who supported Biden against Trump in the 2020 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Polls from Rasmussen Reports and the&nbsp;National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) showed&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/07\/poll-majority-oppose-bidens-450k-payouts-border-crossers\/\">similar results<\/a>&nbsp;where a majority of Americans, including likely&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/08\/poll-2-in-3-swing-voters-oppose-bidens-450k-payouts-to-border-crossers\/\">swing voters<\/a>, oppose the payouts.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Angel Families \u2014 those who have lost loved ones from illegal immigration \u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/05\/angel-families-biden-plan-450k-illegal-aliens-0-american-victims\/\">slammed<\/a>&nbsp;the payouts as \u201ca plan to create millionaires out of over 5,000 illegal alien families\u201d in statements to Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of these illegal aliens deserve anything more than a removal back to their country of origin,\u201d Angel Families with Advocates for Victims of Illegal Alien Crime (AVIAC) wrote in a statement. \u201c\u2026&nbsp;what does the government owe the families who have been victimized by illegal aliens, often forever?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is reportedly dropping plans to provide $450,000 payouts to nearly 1,000 illegal alien families after fierce backlash from the American public. 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