“President Biden is ‘perfectly comfortable’ with his administration paying immigrant families to resolve lawsuits alleging they suffered trauma from being separated after illegally crossing the Mexico border, a White House spokeswoman said Thursday, in a bid to clarify Mr. Biden’s comment a day earlier that such payouts weren’t going to happen,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
White House Walks Back Biden on Migrant Families
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