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TexasTowelie

(115,440 posts) Fri Aug 9, 2024, 02:23 AM Aug 9

Texas governor directs hospitals to ask patients for immigration status - CBS News

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order Thursday requiring hospitals to ask patients for their immigration status. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez has the details.

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Texas governor directs hospitals to ask patients for immigration status - CBS News (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 9 OP

Simple answer here BrianTheEVGuy Aug 9 #1

'It's none of your business.' elleng Aug 9 #2

So people who are sick will be afraid to get treatment thucythucy Aug 9 #3

BrianTheEVGuy

(500 posts)

1. Simple answer here

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2024, 02:25 AM

Aug 9

"I decline to disclose."

Everybody, citizens and non-citizens alike, should simply say that.

I'm sick of these authoritarian weirdos and their fetish for getting all up in people's business. They can ask, and we can (and should) tell them where to go.

elleng

(134,911 posts)

2. 'It's none of your business.'

Reply to BrianTheEVGuy (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 9, 2024, 02:28 AM

Aug 9

thucythucy

(8,648 posts)

3. So people who are sick will be afraid to get treatment

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Aug 9, 2024, 07:20 AM

Aug 9

and the next time there's an epidemic, well, I doubt any virus will care about "immigration status."

Not to mention, will everyone be asked, or only those who "look foreign?"

I suspect the latter.

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