1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Stop blaming immigrants for healthcare fraud and start holding corporate executives accountable. The HHS Office of Inspector General's own semiannual report to Congress makes clear who the real culprits are: C-suite executives running billion-dollar schemes, not immigrant communities. One CEO alone ran a Medicare scam targeting patients with medically unnecessary devices. That's the fraud worth prosecuting. The administration's public narrative is a deliberate misdirection. JD Vance claimed "tens of billions" in fraudulent payments were going to "illegal aliens" in California. Stephen Miller blamed the national debt on immigrants committing benefit fraud. None of it holds up. Noncitizens are actually less likely to commit welfare fraud than citizens, according to Cato Institute data. Meanwhile, Trump granted clemency to Lawrence Duran, who was sentenced to 50 years for a $205 million Medicare fraud scheme. A California governor's office analysis found Trump's pardons wiped nearly $2 billion in taxpayer recovery for Medicare and tax fraud. Healthcare fraud costs this country up to $300 billion a year. The people driving that number are providers billing for services never rendered and executives gaming the system for profit. I want you to call out this scapegoating publicly, demand accountability for corporate healthcare fraud, and oppose any policy that uses fabricated immigrant fraud narratives to cut Medicaid or restrict benefits.