Biden DOJ Says Trump Officials Shouldn’t Pay for Migrant Trauma
- ACLU wants senior Trump officials to pay for migrants’ trauma
- Such personal claims would have profound impact, U.S. says
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Days after President Joe Biden announced a plan to help migrant families, his Justice Department finds itself fighting to get senior Trump administration officials off the hook for separating parents from their children at the border.
The department is defending officials, including former Homeland Security secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and former attorney general Jeff Sessions, from a lawsuit that seeks to hold them personally liable for the separations -- a policy that Biden called “a moral and national shame.”