ACLU tears into Biden for not being aware of the ‘actions of his very own DOJ’ after he called reports of $450,000 migrant payments ‘garbage’

Daily Mail UK

By ELIZABETH ELKIND, POLITICS REPORTER and JAMES GORDON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 10:33 EDT, 4 November 2021 | UPDATED: 11:48 EDT, 4 November 2021

The American Civil Liberties Union tore into President Joe Biden on Wednesday night after he denied reports that his White House is planning on paying migrants separated under the Trump administration $450,000 each or $1 million per family.

Biden had dismissed the reports as ‘garbage’ at a White House press conference just hours earlier.  

The head of the ACLU said the 78-year-old president’s statement means he either hasn’t been ‘full briefed’ on the matter or is ‘abandoning’ his promise to undo Donald Trump‘s more strict immigration laws.

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