In October, The Wall Street Journal reported that advocates were asking the government to consider giving $450,000 to each family member who had been separated. This number wasn’t final; the DOJ hadn’t agreed to it, and the government’s opening bid in the negotiations was substantially lower. But the GOP wasted no time using the figure to attack Biden. Already, Republican attorneys general in several states had filed lawsuits to block every immigration initiative that the president had issued since taking office. In virtually all cases, they were succeeding.
