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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.

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But experts say that’s nonsense.

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