Biden admin reaches deal with migrants separated from their families under Trump [View all]
Source: NBC News
Oct. 16, 2023, 12:04 PM EDT
The Biden administration and more than 4,000 migrants who were separated from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border by the Trump administration reached a legal settlement Monday that allows the families to live and work in the U.S. for three years while receiving housing, mental health and legal assistance to apply for asylum.
The settlement also prohibits the federal government from separating any migrant families crossing the border for eight years, unless the parents are considered a danger to their children or the public or they have previously entered the country illegally more than twice.
The deal, announced by the Justice Department, may end one of the darkest chapters in U.S. immigration policy, in which families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in 2017 and 2018 were systematically separated. Children younger than 18 were sent to the custody of the Department of Health and Human Services, while parents were prosecuted by U.S. attorneys in federal court.
But the settlement could be derailed by Republicans in Congress if they challenge the court’s mandate to appropriate money to reunify and provide services to separated families. U.S. District Judge Dana Sabraw of the Southern District of California is expected to approve the proposed settlement, but he may be asked to review objections. Those objections could come from parties such as America First Legal, a conservative legal group run by Stephen Miller, the former Trump adviser who was considered the architect of the family separation policy.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/biden-admin-reaches-deal-migrants-separated-families-trump-rcna120587
Anything that requires "money" requires Congerssional approval and you have loons who block. Former Senator Tom Coburn ("Dr. No" ) was the biggest blocker of settlement funds among other legislation, having blocked Pigford II (USDA agreement with some black farmers who missed payments from Pigford I) settlement payments unless changes were made.
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