An executive order in Texas now requires hospitals across the state to ask patients about their citizenship status.
The mandate set to take effect Nov. 1 is an effort to tally up how much money the state spends on medical care for undocumented immigrants and request that money back from the federal government. The hospital data must be reported to Texas Health and Human Services no later than March 1, 2025, and continue to be reported on a quarterly basis.
In a statement announcing the order, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said, “Texans should not have to shoulder the burden of financially supporting medical care for illegal immigrants.”…