President Joe Biden is facing fresh questions about whether he is in the loop inside his own administration after the rapid backpedaling on his dismissal of payments to separated migrant families as “garbage” that wasn’t going to happen.
It only took a matter of days for it to be clear that the payments will take place in some form, even if the Department of Justice will handle the details, and Biden is fine with it, though he is not entirely sure what the payouts will be.
“If in fact, because of the outrageous behavior of the last administration, you were coming across the border, whether it was legal or illegal, and you lost your child — you lost your child, it’s gone — you deserve some kind of compensation, no matter what the circumstance,” Biden said as he celebrated House passage of his $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure plan. “What that will be, I have no idea. I have no idea.
”Beyond the issue of immigration, on which the president has for months seen some of his lowest job approval ratings because of an uncontrolled migration surge at the southern border, Biden’s command of his administration’s policy details has been questioned before. --->READ MORE HERE
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Two-thirds of American voters disapprove of the Biden administration’s plans to pay illegal immigrants $450,000 for “trauma” stemming from having their families separated during the Trump administration’s zero tolerance border policy, according to a new poll Monday.
Even among Democrats, disapproval outpaced approval of the idea, according to the poll by the Trafalgar group, taken for Convention of States Action, a conservative organization.
Among Republicans, the idea was deeply unpopular, with 85% of those surveyed “strongly” disapproving.
The polling is the first public measure of the payments the Biden Justice Department has been negotiating with organizations representing thousands of illegal immigrants who were caught up in the zero tolerance policy.
President Biden last week first denied the payments, calling the initial report in The Wall Street Journal “garbage.” He later acknowledged the payments were being discussed and said they were a worthy idea, and insisted the “garbage” comment was in reference to the $450,000 figure. He said it should be lower. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a related story:
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