State Sen. Victor Torres represents predominantly Hispanic Osceola County in central Florida. At Sunday Mass at his local church, immigrants often tell him they are scared to seek health care.

Texas hospitals must ask patients starting Friday whether ... t specify how hospital staff will ask patients about their immigration status, but the governor emphasized that people who are asked ...

Advocacy groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), emphasize that while hospitals must ask the question ..

On Nov. 1, Texas hospitals that accept Medicaid ... Hospital staff can ask about their citizenship or immigration status at any point during the intake process but asking the question cannot ...

Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday ordered hospitals in the Lone Star State to ask patients about their immigration status in order to ascertain the costs of providing medical care to ...

McALLEN, Texas (AP ... of “illegal aliens” coming to a hospital, saying it’s “more associated with rural county status than illegal immigration percentages.” The agency didn ...

issued guidance to hospitals on how to report the data, but the directive lacks information on how to ask patients about their immigration status. According to guidance from Texas Health and Human ...

spokesperson for the Texas Hospital Association. “Right now, hospitals don’t ask about patient immigration status as a condition of treatment. Hospitals are required by law to provide life ...

She resisted, scared of a 2023 Florida law that required hospitals to ask whether ... health care. Texas and Florida have a long history of challenging the federal government’s immigration ...

She resisted, scared of a 2023 Florida law that required hospitals to ask whether ... health care. Texas and Florida have a long history of challenging the federal government's immigration ...