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Under the “zero tolerance” policy applied by then-President Donald Trump in 2018 and a pilot program of 2017, more than 5, at the border.
Thousands of migrant parents and children stranded at the US border by Trump administration policies could soon be eligible to receive hundreds of thousands of dollars per person in compensation, according to three sources familiar with ongoing negotiations in a lawsuit filed on behalf of families.
The Wall Street Journal first reported Thursday that the Biden administration is in talks to offer separated migrant parents and children around $ 450, 000 dollars per person .
That means that if a father and son were separated at the border, together they would be eligible for a combined payment of $ 900, 000 Dollars.
The conversations are part of negotiations between the Department of Justice and attorneys representing separated families in a series of tort cases that have claimed that the families suffered harm when they were forcibly separated.
The total sum of payments is unknown as negotiations continue, sources said.
But if enough parents and children are found, a source said, the US government could be paying hundreds of millions of dollars to compensate these families for what they went through.
Under former President Donald Trump’s “zero tolerance” policy at 2017 and 2018, more than 5, 600 children were separated from their family simply because their parents crossed the border without documents with them.
Before that “zero tolerance” policy, crossing the border without documents was a misdemeanor under US law
Today, it is estimated that more than 1, 000 families are still separated from each other, according to the White House.
In many cases, parents were deported back to their home countries while their children remained in the U.S. and, according to court records, more than 300 parents of separated children.
The Biden administration established a task force to track and work toward the reunification of separated migrant families. So far, the task force has brought together just over 50 families.
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