“What that will be,” he added, “I have no idea.”
The ACLU’s Anthony D. Romero called on President Biden to “right the wrongs of this national tragedy.”
Justice Department spokeswoman Dena Iverson said that the Biden administration still remained “committed to engaging with the plaintiffs and to bringing justice to the victims.”
Lee Gelernt, deputy director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, said, “We are hardly naive that politics sometimes plays a role in DOJ decisions but it is shameful that it happened when the lives of little children are at stake.”
Gelernt added, “It would be an understatement to say we are disappointed” in the Biden administration.
