Ballooning cost of insuring undocumented immigrants complicating Illinois budget negotiations kansascity.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from kansascity.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The program that provides state-funded health insurance to adult undocumented immigrants was first estimated to cost $220 million. But three months later, that price tag has ballooned, complicating the state’s budget debates.
The financial pressure is exposing tensions between Democrats’ open-arms stance on immigration and the limited resources available in a state that has only recently begun to stabilize its chronically shaky finances.
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