BREAKING🚨 The government stopped paying for detained immigrants' outside medical care on October 3, 2025. Ten months later doctors, hospitals and pharmacies still haven't been paid, and detainees are going without treatment. The claims data, released to the watchdog group American Oversight under the Freedom of Information Act, covers more than 233,000 claims for off-site medical and dental care between January and early October 2025, and $96 million in spending. 2,267 of those claims were for pregnancy, birth and maternal care. 1,793 were for seizures. 419 were for suicide or self-harm. The most expensive single claim was $292,199, for leukemia treatment. For two decades the VA's financial services center processed those claims, an arrangement Homeland Security paid for separately. Three days after a right-wing group sued the VA over it, the VA quit. Then-VA press secretary Pete Kasperowicz said the department had abandoned "radical liberal priorities" like processing healthcare claims for immigrants. ICE then handed out multimillion-dollar no-bid contracts to two companies, writing in its own contracting documents that ending the VA deal "created an emergency" and that claims had to be processed "instantly" to "prevent any further medical complications or loss of life." Payments were supposed to restart April 30. Nobody has been paid. The ICE Health Service Corps website still tells providers to hold all claim submissions. One contractor, Acentra Health, has collected $44.6 million (as of June 4, 2026) of its $67.5-million contract and says its job was only to build the system, not to pay anyone. ICE is holding more than 65,000 people. At least 23 have died in immigration custody this year. One 34-year-old man broke his ankle in detention in late February, didn't see a specialist until April 10, and was told at a June appointment that he had missed his scheduled surgery and it was now too risky. He was released last month, still limping, and is collecting cans and bottles to survive. Reps. Delia Ramirez and Mark Takano asked Homeland Security and the VA whether any claims have been paid since October 3, and how many detainees got sicker or died without outside care. They say they got no answer. "In our current system, if no one is paying for services, no one gets healthcare," Ramirez said. If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.