A group of Republican senators want President Joe Biden to drop his administration’s reported plan to pay more than $1 billion to illegal immigrants whose families were separated by federal immigration authorities under Donald Trump. The payments would be made by the federal government to settle litigation filed on behalf of hundreds of such illegal immigrants by the American Civil Liberties Union, according to The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the proposal. The proposed payments could be as high as $450,000 per individual, meaning a family of four could receive up to $1.8 million from American taxpayers. Most of the affected families reportedly involve one adult and one child. Officials from the Department of Justice (DOJ), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are involved in the legal negotiations. The proposal has sparked a growing wave of protests in Congress and elsewhere, including …