“The mission of the VA is to serve veterans, not to serve unauthorized migrants,” says Trump VA adviser.
Joe Biden’s Department of Veterans Affairs processed 161,000 medical and dental claims for illegal migrants in 2022 while at the same time delaying service to US veterans who served their country, according to reports.
Concerned Veterans for America and former VA Secretary under Trump Darin Selnick joined Fox News on Saturday to urge lawmakers to investigate this government abuse.
“When I found out about this a few weeks ago, it made me mad. And everyone I’ve talked to who is a veteran, it makes them mad,” Selnick, an Air Force veteran, told host Pete Hegseth.
“The VA’s mission is to serve veterans. It’s not to help ICE and the Border Patrol – which we have the documents, which on your websites and from a memo – it’s not to help them go ahead and process medical claims and pay medical claims and make it easy for the unauthorized migrants to get healthcare and dental care.”
If this doesn’t make your blood boil I don’t know what will?
Under Biden, Department of Veterans Affairs processed 161,000 medical and dental care claims for ILLEGALS in 2022 while delaying claims for US VETERANS in urgent need of care.
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“The mission of the VA is to serve veterans, not to serve unauthorized migrants. And so what’s happening is, and we have this from the undersecretary health he’s put out in a video which I’ve seen, ‘hey, make it hard for veterans. Make it hard for veterans to go ahead and get community care.’ But at the same time, they are processing for 2022, 161,000 medical claims and paying those claims for unauthorized migrants.”
“Meanwhile, veterans are having a hard time getting health care. They’re literally dying because they can’t get mental health in a timely manner,” he continued. “They can’t get cancer treatment. Bills are being sent to them because they’re not paying the providers on time. So it makes it hard for veterans.”
Selnick also claimed Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is planning to expand the VA’s migrant medical processing at the expense of U.S. vets.
“They’ve told the staff to do that only default to the VA community care when you have to. At the same time, they’re helping border Patrol and ICE make it easy button. Easy button for unauthorized migrants. Hard button for veterans,” he said.
“It’s got to stop. Congress needs to investigate this. Last year, Mayorkas said in testimony that they were working with the VA to go ahead and expand this, possibly in medical centers. We don’t know exactly how deep this is. It’s got to be investigated,” Selnick added.
It’s veterans like these who are being put on the back burner so the Biden regime can fulfill their open borders plan to permanently transform the electorate so Democrats can remain in power forever.
This is what some US veterans going through while illegals getting the medical care they never earned. pic.twitter.com/bfb2UbJCsf
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) December 3, 2023
Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R) condemned the Biden regime prioritizing migrants over America’s veterans and echoed Selnick’s call for a congressional investigation into the matter.
“This is an egregious abuse of the VA’s purpose and there needs to be a full investigation into this. When illegals are having an easier time accessing care than our Vets, that’s a massive problem,” she wrote on X Saturday.
It is NOT the job of the VA to serve and process claims for migrants, full stop. It’s called the Department of Veteran Affairs for a reason.
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— Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (@RepLuna) December 2, 2023
