As Senator Tom Cotton put it, this is like paying an intruder that broke into your house because of the “psychological trauma” they caused themselves from their decision to commit the crime. The issue, of course, boils down to a plan by the Biden administration to use Donald Trump as an excuse to begin paying out cash to families separated at the border back in 2018. Never mind that these families all decided to make an illegal border crossing and fully took these actions on their own account and with the understanding that they were breaking the law and subject to arrest and detainment.
It’s understandable that separating children and parents could be traumatic. It’s also understandable that parents choosing to cross the southern border illegally should not expect a welcome party. What’s more, parents and children are often separated throughout the judicial system for a variety of reasons, either for family issues, such as domestic violence or merely due to issues like divorce. Parental actions have consequences when they morph into criminal activity, like an illegal border crossing, for example.
Nonetheless, here we are, with a plan to settle lawsuits and payout taxpayer money to people who are only seeking this money as a result of their own decision to break federal immigration law:
The Biden administration is in talks to offer immigrant families that were separated during the Trump administration around $450,000 a person in compensation, according to people familiar with the matter, as several agencies work to resolve lawsuits filed on behalf of parents and children who say the government subjected them to lasting psychological trauma.
The lasting psychological trauma is something these people accepted when they decided to march north and storm the U.S. border. It amounts to an invasion, after which the invader asks to be compensated for his or her actions by you, the sovereign inhabitant of the invaded property.
The backlash was quick, and on point:
Pure insanity. The Biden administration is reportedly looking to pay $450,000 to illegal immigrants who knowingly broke the law.
It's a slap in the face to our law-abiding citizens who wake up, go to work, and pay their taxes.
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) October 28, 2021
This is not a good look for the Biden administration when American businesses and households are struggling under his inflation and a tanking economy. Instead, as a taxpayer, you’ll be expected to pay higher prices all over the place while families that broke federal law will get a nice stimulus.
– You lost your business
– Your relatives died alone
– You couldn’t hold or attend their funerals
But illegal aliens are getting $450,000 each because immigration law was enforced.
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) October 28, 2021
Will these payouts be taxed under Biden’s proposed tax plan? Probably not, but that’s OK, you’re a bad person if you question it.
Pure insanity.
Joe Biden is considering paying illegal immigrants $450,000 – this is approximately 10X the median household income in my district!!! #NY21 https://t.co/mqMDRS2kQv
— Elise Stefanik (@EliseStefanik) October 29, 2021
This is Biden’s America now. Why wouldn’t you leave whatever south or central American country you live in and try to head north? People are literally getting paid money because U.S. immigration law was enforced. America is now apologizing for having sovereign borders with cold hard cash to people that ended up with consequences for their knowingly unlawful actions.
The payments could range up to $1 million per family depending on how this all shakes out, which should be a great message for Democrats in the 2022 midterms:
The paper reports that the average demand in each lawsuit adds up to approximately $3.4 million per family, while the settlement offer being mooted by the Biden administration amounts to around $450,000 per person and close to $1 million per family.
The Journal reported that the ACLU has identified approximately 5,500 children affected by the policy, which advocates say caused physical and mental trauma in children who were taken from their parents. So far, around 940 claims have been filed by immigrant families.
Depending on how much is doled out to settle each claim, the cost to taxpayers could approach $1 billion.
The Biden administration will place blame on the Trump administration when questioned, for sure. They’ll say this is only “fair” and “legal” since the government perpetrated trauma on these families.
What about the trauma caused by President Obama’s decision to literally put children in cages? Remember that?
From where I sit:-
Did I just hear Obama blame Trump for 'kids in cages'? pic.twitter.com/KSgPKkQjk0
— Daughter of the King, (Worthy) Bronwyn (@bronwyn1140) November 26, 2020
The media tried to blame Trump, until the truth came out that the photos of kids in cages were taken in 2014, under the administration of Vice President Joe Biden at the time. In fact, the policy of separating families started under Obama:
President Barack Obama separated parents from their children at the border.
Obama prosecuted mothers for coming to the United States illegally. He fast tracked deportations.
And yes, he housed unaccompanied children in tent cities. For much of the country — and President Donald Trump — the prevailing belief is that Obama was the president who went easier on immigrants.
For some reason, only now has it become an issue to enforce immigration law because of Donald Trump. I can think of nothing better for the Democrats to argue, as they’re about to raise taxes on the country, that it’s time to start paying out money to illegal aliens as operations for years of U.S. immigration law in general. Why even have immigration laws?
