Texas Gov. Greg Abbott orders hospitals to collect immigration data

Published 2024-08-08
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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All Comments (21)
  • @tamaracubit6469
    Fix the electrical grid. Give Texas schools their MONEY!!! Governor Abbott!!!!
  • The great irony of the illegal Mexican immigration issue is something that is almost always overlooked by those who disparage Mexico. We acquired half of Mexico by 1848 primarily because of the illegal immigration of citizens of the United States into the Mexican state of Texas in the 1820s and early 1830s. When Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, Texas was only thinly settled by Spanish-speaking Tejanos. When American impresarios petitioned Mexico to allow some American families to settle in Texas, they were granted permission on the condition that they become Mexican citizens, embrace the Catholic faith, and obey Mexican laws. However, as these legal Americans arrived to take advantage of free land, thousands of illegal Americans also crossed the border. It wasn’t long before the “illegals” outnumbered the original Tejano population. Moreover, as Mexican law prohibited slavery, the newcomers came up with creative language to describe their human property as other than property. Officials in Mexico were aware of the problem but there was never a sufficient Mexican military presence in Texas to stem the flow of illegals or to enforce the law against slavery. Exacerbating the challenge was the fact that the Mexican Constitution of 1824 assigned to the national government insufficient powers of purse and sword. (Limited funds limited ability to trade and limited military) In response to a law in 1830 prohibiting further American immigration to Texas and President Santa Anna’s campaign to replace the federal system with a more centralized authority, Texans rebelled in 1836 and declared the Lone Star Republic. The rebels created a constitution that legalized slavery and elected a provisional president who opposed the right of Tejanos to vote. Some 78 percent of the volunteers flooding into Texas to fight Mexico in 1836 arrived illegally (after 1830). Heroes of the Alamo like Davy Crockett and William Travis were illegal aliens, as was Sam Houston, whose army defeated Santa Anna at San Jacinto. A decade later it was our annexation of Texas, a disputed border, and Mexican refusal to sell us California that prompted the Mexican War by which we acquired the northern half of Mexico.
  • @sundager8735
    They are citizens of a foreign country who have entered this country illegally, and looking for the taxpayers of this country to pay their medical bills, we have every right to have information about them
  • What about us at 6:00 here in this country and can't get help what about us here in this country that's sick and can't afford to pay our bills and can't afford to get the treatment that we need. Put them on your insurance and let your insurance pay for
  • @MorrisTillberg
    Ever hear of the 4th amendment? Something about search, and seizure?,đŸ‡ș🇾💙đŸ‡ș🇾
  • @brendarico715
    ❀❀❀My Texas❀❀❀❀ Vote RED
  • The poor working class American tax players pay and pay and pay and pay and pay and pay and pay and pay and pay 0:11
  • @gm7304
    All you had to do was pass the BIPARTISAN deal:face-green-smiling: So EAT TACOS! đŸŒźđŸ€  Que Bueno
  • @oxemediaTV
    Good job abbot invasion đŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡ș🇾đŸ‡ș🇾