Last Monday, ICE released its yearly report, detailing the extent to which the Biden administration has gone to take care of illegal immigrants who have broken U.S. laws and slipped into the country.
The operational budget of the ICE Health Service Corps was approximately $324 million last year, an increase of $8 million from the previous year.
According to the yearly ICE report, the money was spent on “direct treatment – including dental and medical health services – to roughly 118,000 noncitizens held at 19 IHSC-operated facilities around the United States, which topped 1.1 million visits during the fiscal year.”
“The IHSC also monitored compliance with healthcare-related detention criteria for over 120,500 non-citizens detained in 163 non-IHSC-staffed institutions,” according to the report.
One benefit of illegally entering the nation and being in ICE detention is “an initial medical screening, including for any mental health problems, as well as any required follow-up care” paid for by taxpayers.
Individuals identified as “public safety” or “flight risks” are also served.
At ICE-owned facilities and elsewhere, 1,640 US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps officers, federal workers, and contract health professionals provide treatment.
According to Gallup composite ratings established in collaboration with the nonprofit group West Health, approximately 112 million Americans are now unable to pay for health care.
In a March 31, 2022, news release, West Health said that, unlike illegal immigrants that were detained by ICE, over a third of “cost desperate American adults indicate that they have had to cut back on utilities, and half have had to cut back on food in the previous 12 months to pay for critical healthcare.”
In 2020, the CDC reported that 31.6 million Americans, mainly those under the age of 65, had some form of health insurance.
Uninsured kids accounted for 3.7 million in the U.S.
While a large number of foreign nationals get benefits that tens of millions of American citizens do not, U.S. taxpayers incur an increasing burden.
According to a report issued in September by the Federation for American Immigration Reform, American taxpayers must pay an additional $20.4 billion in yearly costs to compensate for the needs of illegal immigrants who have entered the U.S. under Biden.
This annual number was not included in the projected $140 billion that taxpayers were already footing to pay for the provision of benefits and services to the “longer-term” population of illegal immigrants, according to FAIR.
Texas AG Ken Paxton, who said this week that he was suing the White House over a rule that punishes taxpayers in order to help offset the cost of illegal immigration, asserted that the Biden administration acted improperly “is committed to welcoming aliens who lack the ability to care for themselves. Neither Texans nor any other American should be forced to pay for these expensive immigrants.”
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