When Donald Trump put out his health care plan late Wednesday, he mentioned just one number: $11 billion.
He claims that’s the annual cost of providing health care to undocumented immigrants — and an opportunity for big savings, if those here illegally could just be deported or prevented from coming to the United States in the first place.
But experts say that’s nonsense.
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