The governor of the state of Texas (EU), Greg Abbottordered the state’s public hospitals on Thursday to collect information on the cost of the care to the migrants that do not have a status legal in the country.
In an executive order signed Thursday, ultra-conservative Abbott required health centers to produce reports with the data they collect and submit them by March of next year.
Specifically, they are asked to collect information on “the number of patients without a status migratory who are hospitalized and treated in emergency visits” as well as “the cost of the services what are they deliver“.
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The objective of this mandate, the governor stressed in a statement, is to seek to obtain a “reimbursement” by the Government of Joe Biden of the expenses in which Texas has incurred to “support the medical care” of the migrants undocumented.
“We will make the Government Biden-Harris be held responsible for the consequences of its policies borders open,” Abbott said.
It is not yet clear how this will be implemented. directivesince, according to the Department of Health and Human Services itself, Texashealth professionals should not ask their patients about their status migratory.
The executive order includes a section that asks hospitals to inform patients that the answer to questions about their status migratory “will not affect the care” they receive.
In recent years, Abbott has led a media and political battle against the Government Biden, whom he accuses of creating a “crisis” in the frontera on.
Among the measures that the Republican has taken are installing dozens of kilometers of razor wire in the border territory, as well as increasing the military presence in the area with National Guard troops.
The White House, for its part, has implemented multiple restrictive rules to control the migrationthe most recent of which prohibits most people who cross into the US irregularly from applying for asylum.
As a result, the number of arrests in the frontera with Mexico has dropped dramatically, reaching its lowest figure in more than three years in July, according to leaks to US media.
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