{"id":969223,"date":"2021-11-04T19:58:54","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969223"},"modified":"2021-11-04T19:58:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:58:56","slug":"white-house-actually-joe-biden-perfectly-comfortable-with-payouts-for-illegal-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-actually-joe-biden-perfectly-comfortable-with-payouts-for-illegal-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"White House: Actually, Joe Biden &#039;Perfectly Comfortable&#039; with Payouts for Illegal Immigrants"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fwhite-house-actually-joe-biden-perfectly-comfortable-with-payouts-for-illegal-immigrants%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=969223&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\/Cash-Handoff-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The White House on Thursday reversed a comment made by President Joe Biden that his administration would not issue payouts to illegal immigrants suing the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>White House deputy press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Biden was actually \u201cperfectly comfortable\u201d with the idea, despite his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/03\/joe-biden-backs-off-450k-payouts-to-border-crossers-not-going-to-happen\/\">comment<\/a> Wednesday insisting it was \u201cnot going to happen.\u201d She said:<\/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<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>If it saves taxpayer dollars and puts the disastrous history of the previous administration\u2019s use of zero tolerance and family separation behind us, the president is perfectly comfortable with the Justice settling with the individuals and families currently in litigation with the federal government.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden previously called reports that the Department of Justice was considering payouts to individual illegal immigrants who were separated during former President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201cZero Tolerance\u201d immigration enforcement policy \u201cgarbage\u201d and \u201cnot true.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>But Jean-Pierre said Biden was specifically referring to the idea of the reported $450,000 price tag, not the overall concept of a payout.<\/p>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which filed multiple lawsuits against the federal government on behalf of border crossers affected by Trump\u2019s policies, said in a statement that Biden \u201cmay not have been fully briefed\u201d about the Justice Department\u2019s plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.341772151899\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We respectfully remind President Biden that he called these actions \u2018criminal\u2019 in a debate with then-President Trump, and campaigned on remedying and rectifying the lawlessness of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>We call on President Biden to right the wrongs of this national tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ACLU (@ACLU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACLU\/status\/1456020163216674818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe call on President Biden to right the wrongs of this national tragedy,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>Jean-Pierre said that despite Biden\u2019s comments, the president believed in the independence of the Justice Department, but he struggled to explain exactly what he meant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was asked a question and he answered it,\u201d she concluded, punting further questions about the potential payments to the Justice Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Thursday reversed a comment made by President Joe Biden that his administration would not issue payouts to illegal immigrants suing the federal government. 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