Biden administration ends talks to pay migrant families separated at border – By Jake Thomas (UPI) / December 16, 2021
Dec. 16 (UPI) — President Joe Biden‘s administration has abandoned negotiations to provide cash payments to thousands of migrant families as compensation for a Trump-era policy that separated parents from their children at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Immediately after taking office this year, Biden formed a task force to reunite separated migrant families. Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas said in March that the administration was “working around the clock to replace the cruelty of the past administration with an orderly, humane and safe immigration process.”
During the first presidential debate with Trump last year, Biden called the separation policy “criminal.”
Lawyers representing the families told The New York Times that negotiations for compensation stalled after a leak in October suggested that payments could be as high as $450,000.
