Or is the U.S. government paying huge compensation for some specific illegal immigrants? Biden refutes: Impossible

The Paper's reporter Nan Boyi trainee reporter Zhu Runyu

On November 3, local time, US President Joe Biden said at a press conference that the US federal government has not considered paying compensation for some illegal immigrants. At the same time, he said that the previous relevant reports of the local media were "wrong".

According to ABC News reported on November 4, at a press conference on the 3rd, Biden denied the news that compensation would be paid for illegal immigrants. "It's not going to happen, the previous reports are all 'garbage'." In response to Biden, the ACLU issued a statement saying it was the opposite of the "orderly, humane" border immigration policy he promised during his presidential campaign.

In April 2018, then-U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a "zero tolerance" policy on illegal immigrants, when he demanded that these migrants who tried to cross the border illegally be prosecuted or detained, but the policy resulted in thousands of children being separated from their parents.

Therefore, the US media "Wall Street Journal" pointed out that the Biden administration is considering paying compensation to these affected immigrants, because this policy has caused these immigrants to "suffer lasting psychological trauma."

The report revealed that affected immigrants can receive compensation of US$450,000 (about 2.88 million yuan) per person, meaning that these immigrant families can receive more than US$1 million in compensation on average, and the total amount is expected to exceed US$1 billion. The amount of compensation exceeds the total amount of pensions paid to the families of the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

However, compared with the huge compensation that "does not exist", the immigration problem in the United States is more realistic. According to data released by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in October, U.S. law enforcement arrested about 1.7 million illegal immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border between October 1 and September 30, the highest since 1960.

At the same time, there are constant extortions, beatings, or forced separation of migrants from their families at the U.S. border. In response, The Capitol Hill noted that "Biden has refused to personally resolve the 'catastrophic' border crisis, and the US federal government has repeatedly tried to downplay the severity of the crisis." Data from September shows that only 50 families have been reunited with the help of the federal government, and 1,727 of the roughly 4,000 children are still separated from their parents.

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