Lawsuit Claims VA Diverted Medical Resources from Veterans to Aid Illegal Immigrants

By Virginia Allen | The Daily Signal

The Veterans Affairs Department is facing a lawsuit after failing to disclose information related to the department’s alleged improper use of medical resources during the Biden administration to benefit illegal immigrants.  

Following a Daily Signal report in August 2024, a policy organization in Washington asked the VA for more information related to its reputed use of employees to process cases of illegal aliens at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Health Service Corps.

The Center to Advance Security in America, or CASA, received none of the information it requested from the VA.

“After CASA learned that the Biden administration was diverting resources from the VA to provide medical exams for illegal aliens, we filed a [Freedom of Information Act] request seeking records and communications,” James Fitzpatrick, director of CASA, told The Daily Signal.  

“We received no response and now file suit to obtain the records and educate the American public on exactly how and why the Biden VA was diverting valuable resources intended for disabled veterans to provide wrap-around medical care and prescriptions to illegal aliens,” Fitzpatrick said.  

Under the Biden administration, the “VA was focused on all sorts of completely unnecessary activities, such as helping Veterans attempt to change their sex and processing health care claims for illegal immigrants,” Pete Kasperowicz, press secretary for the VA, told The Daily Signal. “Under President Trump, the department has abandoned these radical liberal priorities and rededicated itself to providing the best possible care and benefits to the Veterans, families, caregivers and survivors we serve.”

The lawsuit, filed over the weekend in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, aims to force the VA to release emails and various other communications regarding the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Health Services Corps, migrants, and the movement of “processors” from the VA to support immigration-related work.  

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