The Department of Veterans Affairs is facing blowback for helping pay out millions of dollars to medical providers who treat illegal immigrants while they are in federal custody — while a backlog of hundreds of thousands of claims from veterans has grown.
The VA’s Austin, Texas-based Financial Services Center (FSC) has been contracted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since 2002 to process reimbursement claims by providers who offer services to detained migrants.
In fiscal year 2022, which ended Sept. 30 of that year, FSC processed 161,538 such claims, with the ICE Health Services Corps (IHSC) paying out an average of $584 — a total of $94.3 million in taxpayer money, according to a July 2023 Department of Homeland Security report on “Healthcare Costs for Noncitizens in Detention.”
In the previous fiscal year, 2021, ICE’s health care arm budgeted more than $74 million for the VA’s FSC to assist with “outside referral care” and “medical claims processing,” according to a report from July 2022.
Meanwhile, the pile of benefit claims by veterans and their families awaiting adjudication has grown to 417,855, according to the VA’s own website — up from around 150,000 as of late 2022.
Time to Crack Down on the Wrongdoings in this country !!!!!
ILLEGALS ARE NOT MIGRANTS AND SHOULD GET NOTHING !!!!!!!
Migrants come in LEGALLY !!!! PERIOD
Disgraceful!!
Illegals are Discraceful & Those Who Harbour them !!!!! ILLEGAL
Time to CUT OFF ALL immigration !!!! Enough is Enough !!!! WE are FULL !!!!! Time for Other countries to
take them !!!!!
Americans are NOT going to stand for Giving Illegals FREE new Housing / Our benefits / Kicking Out our
Veterans / Letting them stay HERE period !!!!!
You Got ANOTHER THING COMING !!!!! WW3 Our biggest Enemy is the DEMOCRAT PARTY > HERE !!!!!!
Veterans should be IN FRONT OF THE LINE !!!! iIlegals thrown OUT !!!!!!!!