DOJ no longer in settlement talks with illegals

 National Review:

The U.S. Department of Justice has pulled out of settlement talks with migrant families who were separated at the southern border under the Trump administration and instead plans to litigate hundreds of families’ claims, according to reports.

Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the ACLU’s immigrant-rights project, served as a lead negotiator in the talks and reportedly told the Wall Street Journal the government ended settlement negotiations with families who have filed lawsuits claiming that the government subjected parents and children to lasting psychological trauma.

The latest news comes two months after the Wall Street Journal reported that the Biden administration was considering issuing payments to immigrant families of around $450,000 a person, for a total payout that could cost the government more than $1 billion. Republican lawmakers and some government lawyers saw the payouts as excessive for illegal immigrants who broke the law by crossing the border, according to the report. It added that a government lawyer threatened to remove his name from the case in protest of the potential settlement offer.

In November, eleven Republican senators urged Biden to end the settlement talks.

“[R]ewarding illegal immigration with financial payments runs counter to our laws and would only serve to encourage more lawlessness at our border,” Senator Chuck Grassley and other Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote.

This week the Justice Department pulled out of negotiations.
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The DOJ should consider suing the illegals for the burden they impose on the US because of their illegal entry.  It was also clear that Congress was never going to authorize any settlement payments to the illegals and that it ws a political loser for Democrats.

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