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.
WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — 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.” On Friday the department filed support for the previous administration’s request to dismiss the lawsuit — which was brought by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2019 on behalf of thousands of families separated at the Arizona border.
