During the Trump administration, a frustrated government instituted a “zero tolerance” policy and began criminally processing illegal border crossers. Accustomed to being waved through, the illegals were instead arrested and held for deportation. In the case of family units, however, the law required that minor children be admitted and remanded to the care of relatives or sponsors already in the country. Records show that approximately 5,500 were thus separated from their parents or other adult guardians.
Flash forward to today. With the ready assistance of armies of lawyers from such outfits as the ACLU and Al Otro Lado (trans.: To the Other Side), those criminal aliens, adults and minors alike, are suing the federal government for having “deliberately traumatized” them. About 940 separate lawsuits have already been filed. They are demanding compensation plus permanent residency so “they can begin to heal,” as one lawyer put it. On average, the compensation demand is about $3.4 million per family.
The Biden administration, eager to please, in February created the Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families to find the members of those families still separated (said to number around 1,000) and fly those who had been deported back to the U.S. for reunification. To date, about 52 families have been thus reunited on American soil and about 200 more are in the process. Officially, the families are being given a three-year “grant of parole,” which allows them to live and work legally in the U.S. but doesn’t (yet) offer them a path to permanent legal status. That will no doubt come later.
In addition, the government entered into negotiations regarding compensation for the criminal aliens.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Biden government is considering paying out $450,000 per person to each member of a family deemed to have been separated. That means that if the family unit consisted only of one adult and one minor, each would receive $450K, nearly one million dollars for having broken the law. Estimates are the government may end up paying a total of at least one billion dollars before it’s all over.
Anyone who says crime doesn’t pay never met Joe Biden.
For more, see the Wall Street Journal.