Homeland Security adviser Stephen Miller said that “people who don’t belong here” are responsible for the United States‘ growing national debt. He made these claims during an executive order signing that focused on alleged fraud within federal programs. However, the actual data does not support his assertion.
Miller specifically blamed undocumented immigrants, claiming they receive Medicaid benefits and emergency hospital care. He suggested that Democrats have built a system to send “hundreds of billions, and ultimately trillions of dollars, to migrants” since President Trump took office. To support this, he offered one anecdote: that ICE agents questioned a group of detained migrants, and “half of them raised their hands and volunteered that they were on Medicaid.”
