Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) told Fox News Digital that resources for Veterans Affairs (VA) are being shifted to services for illegal immigrants.
“They’ve opened up care from the doctors in these [VA] community care systems,” Tuberville said. “The lines now in the VA’s are getting longer. Our funds that are supposed to go to the veterans are going to these illegal immigrants that are coming across.”
The senator discussed his recently introduced No VA Resources for Illegal Aliens Act, which he introduced alongside Representative Mike Bost (R-IL) and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).
“I think we’ve got a great opportunity to get this, maybe not to a vote, but at least where we discuss it on the floor, where the American people start to understand it,” he added. “An election year is a great year to try to get some kind of bipartisan help on any type of bill, especially when it comes to the veterans. That means so much to us here in our country.”
Tuberville said as the legislation was introduced, “Joe Biden is putting illegal immigrants over America’s veterans. It is outrageous. Our veterans should not be forced to wait in long lines at VA medical centers and clinics to get the care they earned while illegal immigrants waltz across our open border and get taxpayer-funded healthcare they never earned.”
“Our veterans should have the best healthcare we can provide—and illegals who have no right to be in this country don’t deserve a dime from the taxpayer. Congress needs to pass this legislation to stop Joe Biden from robbing veterans to pay off illegals.”
