{"id":1392950,"date":"2022-03-21T23:29:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T03:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392950"},"modified":"2022-03-21T23:29:52","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T03:29:52","slug":"health-care-for-detained-illegal-aliens-costs-taxpayers-316m-as-millions-of-americans-go-uninsured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/health-care-for-detained-illegal-aliens-costs-taxpayers-316m-as-millions-of-americans-go-uninsured\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Care for Detained Illegal Aliens Costs Taxpayers $316M as Millions of Americans Go Uninsured"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhealth-care-for-detained-illegal-aliens-costs-taxpayers-316m-as-millions-of-americans-go-uninsured%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1392950&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">American taxpayers foot the bill for more than $316 million in healthcare costs for illegal aliens detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency last year as millions of Americans continue to go uninsured.<\/p>\n<p>ICE\u2019s annual report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/doclib\/eoy\/iceAnnualReportFY2021.pdf\">reveals<\/a> that the agency spent well over $316 million in taxpayer money, allocated by Congress, to provide\u00a0comprehensive medical, mental health, dental, and public health services to about 88,000 illegal aliens who were in the agency\u2019s custody throughout the course of last year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>ICE also oversaw the health care of nearly 170,000 illegal aliens who were detained at some point in private facilities across the United States last year.<\/p>\n<p>Agency officials wrote that ICE \u201cis committed to providing the safe delivery of high-quality health care to\u201d illegal aliens in their custody and \u201cstrives to be the best health care delivery system in detention and correctional health care.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20145666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1309857815.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of migrants is processed by United States Border Patrol agents after arriving illegally from Mexico on March 29, 2021, in Roma, Texas. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last year, ICE facilitated 88,430 intake screenings, 13,622 emergency room visits, 8,497 dental visits, 12,041 urgent care visits, 78,202 sick calls, and 46,496 mental health interventions for illegal aliens in their custody.<\/p>\n<p>The figure comes as the U.S. Census Bureau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/publications\/2021\/demo\/p60-274.html\">shows<\/a> that about 28 million Americans, nearly nine percent of the population, were uninsured as of 2020. That total, though, does not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/health-costs\/issue-brief\/americans-challenges-with-health-care-costs\/\">include<\/a> tens of millions of working- and middle-class Americans who are insured but who struggle to cover the costs and often put off doctor and dentist visits as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Already, taxpayers are forced to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/06\/27\/fact-check-u-s-taxpayers-pay-18-5b-a-year-for-healthcare-for-illegal-aliens\/\">subsidize<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0$18.5 billion\u00a0of yearly medical costs for illegal aliens living in the U.S., according to estimates by Chris Conover, formerly of the Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research at Duke University.<\/p>\n<p>When American voters were\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/07\/08\/cnn-poll-6-in-10-swing-voters-oppose-taxpayer-funded-healthcare-for-illegal-aliens\/\">polled<\/a>\u00a0by CNN\u00a0on the issue in July 2019, nearly 6-in-10 said they were opposed to forcing taxpayers to provide free health benefits to illegal aliens, including 63 percent of swing voters and 61 percent of self-described \u201cmoderates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>John Binder is a reporter for Breitbart News. Email him at jbinder@breitbart.com. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JxhnBxnder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American taxpayers foot the bill for more than $316 million in healthcare costs for illegal aliens detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency last year as millions of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1392950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1392950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}