President Biden has criticized Trump admin. actions that resulted in the forced separation of thousands of migrant children from their parents at the southern border as “criminal.” But the Justice Dept. is still defending the policy, a court filing shows.
'Seeking to minimize the unthinkable'
Lee Gelernt, the deputy director of the American Civil Liberty Union’s Immigrant Civil Rights Project and the lead lawyer in the case that ended Trump's policy, had harsh words after the recent Justice Department filing. The arguments from Biden’s Department of Justice seem to contradict statements from the president and high-ranking officials at the Department of Justice and the Department of Homeland Security.During his confirmation hearings, Attorney General Merrick Garland said that the policy was “shameful” and that he “couldn’t imagine anything worse.” Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Majorkas called the policy “cruel and inhumane.
emerged in 2021. Each affected family initially stood to received hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. But later that year, the Biden administration walked away from the negotiations.
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