Immigration Status Questions To Expand To Healthcare?

Published Jul 29, 2007

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hi guys! i was wondering if i could get some input on your thoughts regarding where healthcare is heading with our illegal immigrants.in a town very near mine they have made our local sheriff's departments deputies be appoinyed/deputized also as federal immigration/ins workers,.so now ...they patrol for illegal immigrants...anytime they stop anyone who "appears" to maybe be here illgally they have the authority to detain them and actually contact ins to begin deportation back to their home country.this.....worries me that it may actually trend over into healthcare...so that when a patient enter thru those er doors one of the first questions they may be asked is "what is your immigration status?".already...as many of us know alot of illegal immigrants wait until they are so very sick..so very very sick....before they even seek healthcare treatment.i'd hate to think what will happen...when ...or ...if...we have to begin patroling their immigration status. are any nurses working in any facilities that are even allowed to ask about immigration status?tell me how your state handles this issue or if they even address it at all. in my state we dont ask..and i pray it stays that way!but i will be "interested" to see "how" other states address this issue ....if they address it at all! my worst fear is that this new found trend of "community policing" immigration status will weave its way into healthcareso...does your state address this issue at all? and also....how taxing is this problem on the border states that see a higher volume of mexican/central american immigrants. . thanks! :idea:

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