A Gold Star father is blasting President Joe Biden over his reported plan to pay illegal aliens separated at the U.S. border during the Trump administration up to $450,000 each.
The huge payout estimates rivals what some Gold Star families receive after their loved ones die serving in the U.S. Military.
Gold Star father David Horton said Sunday that it’s “an outrage” and “completely disrespectful” for the Biden administration to potentially pay more to migrants who illegally crossed our border than to families of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.
“I think it’s another – yet another insult … against our military families and Gold Star families and veterans,” Horton said on “Fox & Friends.” “It’s just another another slap in the face … It’s completely disrespectful.”
Horton’s son Christopher died while serving in Afghanistan, which was recently flipped to the Taliban’s control after Biden executed a bungled withdrawal.
According to Fox News, “The families of those lost in the line of duty receive a one-time payment of $100,000. Service members do have the option of opting into a voluntary life insurance policy which maxes out at $400,000, but they do have to contribute to it.”
“They’ve broken the law coming in on our borders and didn’t compare that with someone, a patriot like my son, who gave his all on the battlefield of Afghanistan,” Horton slammed.
“I just, I am outraged,” the father said. “I think this is, you know, you just wonder, where is the outcry against some of these policies that are just there? Unbelievable to me.”
The Wall Street Journal reported last week: “The U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Health and Human Services are considering payments that could amount to close to $1 million a family, though the final numbers could shift. Most of the families that crossed the border illegally from Mexico to seek asylum in the U.S. included one parent and one child.”
Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) reacted to the report via Twitter: “Biden wants to pay illegal immigrants $450,000 for their hardship while breaking our laws. For perspective, if a service member is killed in action, their next of kin gets an insurance payment of $400,000. Let that sink in.”
Likewise, Rep. Greg Murphy (R-NC) led a GOP letter condemning the Biden administration’s reported move (emphasis original).
“Promising tens of thousands of dollars to those who unlawfully entered the United States would not only reward criminal behavior, but it would surely send a message to the world that our borders are open, and or rule of law will not be enforced. Compare this hefty compensation sum [$450,000] to the 2019 average median American household annual income of $68,703,” the letter said. “Furthermore, compare it to the maximum payout from a SGLI life insurance policy for military members, which is $400,000. The idea that we would give illegal foreigners who broke the law a check that exceeds the amount that our government supplies to our valiant and heroic Gold Star Families is shameful, reprehensible, and morally indignant.”





Texas Cops Refused to Escort Biden Bus, Told Hysterical Staffers to ‘Call Back’ Later
Police who refused frantic calls by campaign staffers for President Joe Biden to rescue their bus from allegedly being harassed by supporters of then-President Donald Trump made jokes about it, according to a federal filing in a lawsuit over the year-old incident.
Last October, a self-described “Trump Train” of supporters of the 45th president preyed upon the nerves of a Biden bus when the then-former vice president was still campaigning. The trucks driven by the Trump loyalists drove in and out of the Biden convoy, boxed them in the road at one point and were involved in a fender-bender-type collision, according to Fox News. The bus, however, was never struck.
But there’s more, according to The Texas Tribune, which obtained court documents revealing the chitchat among officers that day as the incident unfolded.
Although the incident may seem like a motorized version of the rough-and-tumble of politics, the suit filed against several jurisdictions claims the Biden staffers impacted suffer psychological and emotional injury. From a legal standpoint, the suit invokes the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 claiming police were aware of “acts of violent political intimidation” but did not do anything.
Part of the 911 transcripts that are now part of the case reveal that San Marcos Police Department Cpl. Matthew Daenzer rejected the idea of escorting the Bidenistas.
“I am so annoyed at New Braunfels for doing this to us,” a dispatcher told Daenzer, who laughed at the comment, according to the transcript. “They have their officers escorting this Biden bus, essentially, and the Trump Train is cutting in between vehicles and driving — being aggressive and slowing them down to like 20 or 30 miles per hour. And they want you guys to respond to help.”
“No, we’re not going to do it,” Daenzer said. “We will ‘close patrol’ that, but we’re not going to escort a bus.”
“[T]hey’re like really worked up over it and he’s like breathing hard and stuff, like, ‘they’re being really aggressive.’ Okay. Calm down,” the dispatcher said.
Daenzer said the Biden bus should “drive defensively and it’ll be great.”
“Or leave the train,” the 911 dispatcher said. “There’s an idea.”
The dispatcher then relayed the news to Team Biden that the Democrats were on their own.
“If you feel like you’re being threatened or your life is threatened, definitely call us back,” she said.
“Are you kidding me, ma’am?” the staffer said, adding, “they’ve threatened my life on multiple occasions with vehicular collision.”
The staffer then again asked for an escort.
The complaint said that on the day after the incident, Chase Stapp, the public safety director for San Marcos, wrote, “From what I can gather, the Biden bus never even exited I-35 thanks to the Trump escort.”
However, as news of the event traveled, officers wrote one another using internal emails to warn of a “political fire storm” and that the incident “might lead to political and legal consequences,” the complaint said.
Daenzer’s report said that “due to the staffing issues, lack of time to plan, and lack of knowledge of the route, we were unable to provide an escort.”