{"id":969246,"date":"2021-11-04T19:59:06","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=969246"},"modified":"2021-11-04T19:59:08","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T23:59:08","slug":"aclu-rips-into-biden-for-denying-border-crossers-will-be-paid-450000-each","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aclu-rips-into-biden-for-denying-border-crossers-will-be-paid-450000-each\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Rips Into Biden for Denying Border Crossers Will Be Paid $450,000 Each"},"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\">26<\/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%2Faclu-rips-into-biden-for-denying-border-crossers-will-be-paid-450000-each%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=969246&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-2-640x480-1-640x335-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is going after President Joe Biden after he claimed this week that a plan to give reparations-style $450,000 payouts to border crossers is \u201cnot going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/28\/report-biden-considers-paying-border-crossers-450k-each-in-reparations\/\">reports circulated<\/a>&nbsp;that Biden\u2019s Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) were working to settle with a number of border crossers represented by the ACLU, who claim they have suffered trauma as a result of former President Trump\u2019s \u201cZero Tolerance\u201d policy that was briefly imposed in 2019.<\/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>As part of the settlement, attorneys with the DOJ, DHS, and HHS are considering a plan that would give each border crosser about $450,000 and family units&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/01\/analysis-biden-proposal-could-turn-illegal-alien-families-into-millionaires\/\">about $1 million<\/a>. The total cost of the payouts would reach $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>This week, when asked about the payouts, Biden said, \u201cthat\u2019s not going to happen,\u201d though the West Wing of the White House has little-to-no say over DOJ settlements.<\/p>\n<p>In response, ACLU&nbsp;Executive Director Anthony Romero said, \u201cBiden&nbsp;may not have been fully briefed about the actions of his very own Justice Department\u201d as they negotiate the settlement.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf [Biden] follows through on what he said, the president is abandoning a core campaign promise to do justice for the thousands of separated families,\u201d Romero said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p><strong>We respectfully remind President Biden that he called these actions \u2018criminal\u2019 in a debate<\/strong> with then-President Trump, and campaigned on remedying and rectifying the lawlessness of the Trump administration. <strong>We call on President Biden to right the wrongs of this national tragedy<\/strong>. [Emphasis added]\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As Breitbart News has noted, the $450,000 payouts to border crossers&nbsp;<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\/\">would far exceed<\/a>&nbsp;the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/31\/bidens-450k-border-crossers-nearly-double-payments-given-boston-bombing-victims\/\">compensation provided<\/a>&nbsp;to the victims of the September 11, 2001, Islamic terrorist attacks and of the Boston Marathon bombings.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, analysis by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) calculated that the single payout for a border crosser under the proposal could feed 42 American families for an entire year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the total cost of the payouts could provide homes to nearly 80,000 homeless Americans for a year or could forgive student loan debt for more than 27,000 American college students and graduates who are struggling to move up the economic ladder.<\/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>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The left-wing American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is going after President Joe Biden after he claimed this week that a plan to give reparations-style $450,000 payouts to border crossers is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}