Trump’s minion Stephen Miller found a new talking point and some numbers pulled out of his backside to demonize immigrants over. During a segment on this Friday’s The Ingraham Angle on Fox while attacking Texas Senate candidate James Talarico for his statements about ICE, Miller made this absurd claim about the so-called costs for “fake asylum seekers.”
MILLER: Did you know, Laura, the cost of adjudicating even one fake asylum claim is the same cost as providing free cancer treatment to one American citizen with pediatric cancer?
Every single fraud they abet, we could provide free cancer care to one American citizen.
INGRAHAM: Well, real help to Americans who need help, especially today.
First off, the notion that Republicans would ever offer some program for free cancer treatment, even for children, is ridiculous.
Second, the number of people filing “fake” asylum claims is somewhere between slim and none, or in other words, a tiny fraction of the number of people seeking asylum, and most of the cases that have problems are not because anyone is trying to defraud the government, but are legitimate claims that were “denied for procedural reasons, such as not having a lawyer, rather than a lack of merit.”
Miller was rightfully shredded on Xitter for this nonsense.
What in the name of made-up bullshit is this?
— Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 (@KellyScaletta) August 29, 2026
Amazing @StephenM because for every tax break you give to one billionaire, you could treat thousands of children with cancer. But keep talking about how you hate our Constitution and its due process clause.
— COtoMD (@co3blue) August 28, 2026
On average, each US immigrant contributes roughly $35.4K to the annual GDP and holds $33.3K in consumer spending power, while costing the gov’t less in public services per capita than native-born residents.
Cost to remove them $18K – $1M each. Make it make sense. pic.twitter.com/3ScKu8aGIK
— — • C H E E K Y • — (@andreagail_k) August 29, 2026
lol they cut kid cancer funding and the trump family stole from their cancer charity but ok
— Political Punk (@actingliketommy) August 29, 2026
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— Max Hoover to bluer skies🌊💙 🇺🇸 🦅 (@Topher_mo) August 29, 2026
With the money spent and proposed for Trump’s ballroom, monuments, and vanity projects, the US could have provided full cancer treatment (~$150,000) for 8,000 Americans.
— Joseph (@Perma_banned_me) August 28, 2026
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— — • C H E E K Y • — (@andreagail_k) August 29, 2026
This absolute and total bullshit, and nothing more than a scare tactic to make Americans falsely believe there’s a binary choice.
Especially considering this administration has cut the f*cking funding used to actually research and treat cancer!
— Daniel Delgado (@DDinDC) August 29, 2026
Except we don’t provide “free cancer care” to anybody, so what the literal fuck is he talking about?
— robert jon anderson (@R_JonAnderson) August 28, 2026