Overcoming Trump’s U.S. Health Care Wrecking Ball
It is critical to understand these cuts in the broader context of the already highly dysfunctional U.S. health care system.
The federal government pays sheriffs $90 a day to hold immigrants awaiting deportation. Some sheriffs are aggressively lobbying to have immigrants put in their jails. Local jailers receive $1.7 billion a year from taxpayers to keep people charged with overstaying their visas instead of releasing them pending trials.
From the Boston Globe: