President Joe Biden said Saturday that he supports compensating migrant families that were separated under the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy.
“Now here’s the thing. If in fact because of the outrageous behavior of the last administration, you coming across the border, whether it was legal or illegal, and you lost your child,” Biden said during a press conference on the passage of a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill. “You lost your child. It’s gone. You deserve some kind of compensation, no matter what the circumstance. What that will be, I have no idea.”
He also clarified his remarks from earlier this week, when he called the report about the administration planning to pay $450,000 to migrant families separated under Trump “garbage,” saying that the plans to pay the families were not false, just the dollar amount.
