Senator Bill Cassidy is among 14 Senate Republicans looking to block the payment of nearly a half-million dollars to illegal immigrants who were separated from their families at the border when detained.
“The Biden administration is considering payments of $450,000 to migrants who illegally crossed the border and were caught by the previous administration,” said Cassidy.
Cassidy calls the proposed payments an incentive for migrant families to put their children in harm’s way. The senators are introducing legislation to prevent these taxpayer-funded payouts.
Cassidy is outraged by the proposed payments to illegal immigrants. He says the payments are “completely absurd”, concluding it “almost creates a lottery” to attract more migrants to cross the southern border as if that needs to be done for folks to come.
Cassidy seems to indicate the payments to illegal immigrants would be a slap in the face economically to citizens of this country.
“The Biden administration couldn’t demonstrate their priorities anymore while American families struggling with this what some call the Biden inflation,” said Cassidy.
Senator John Kennedy, who is joining Cassidy in the legislative effort to head off the immigrant payments, says the move would be a “bitter insult to every person who has come to America by respecting our laws and borders.”
But When asked about paying migrant immigrants, President Joe Biden said Wednesday that it will not happen and calls a Wall Street Journal and a New York Times report that it was being considered by the White House “garbage.”
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