Biden DOJ Defending Trump’s Family Separation Policy
This is truly disappointing. The Biden administration should pay the damages owed to parents and children who were traumatized by Trump’s separation policy.
From NBC News:
Attorneys from President Joe Biden’s Justice Department are still defending actions from the Trump administration that led to the forced separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border — including the argument that the families were separated out of “perceived humanitarian considerations,” a recent court filing shows.
The argument shows a stark contrast with Biden’s past criticisms of the separations as “criminal.”
In fighting five asylum-seeking mothers who are suing the federal government for the trauma they say they and their children suffered because of the separation policy, the Justice Department has also questioned the families’ ability to seek monetary damages through the Federal Tort Claims Act, which allows people to sue for injuries resulting from federal officers’ unlawful conduct.
Attorneys from the Justice Department argued in a court document filed May 24 that the mothers’ claims were “not cognizable” under the Federal Tort Claims Act, also known as FTCA. They also justified immigration enforcement actions from some Trump administration officials, saying the U.S. government has ample discretion when it decides how to regulate immigration.
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