Jamal is the justice correspondent for Scripps News. He has found a home in criminal and social justice reporting, focusing largely on incarcerated and marginalized communities.
An executive order in Texas now requires hospitals across the state to ask patients about their citizenship status. The mandate set to take effect Nov. 1 is an effort to tally up how much money the state spends on medical care for undocumented immigrants and request that money back from the federal government. The hospital data must be reported to Texas Health and Human Services no later than March 1, 2025, and continue to be reported on a quarterly basis.
'Just in the same way you don't have to divulge other personal information — about maybe your sexual orientation or your religion — to obtain emergency medical care, it's similar that you do not have to divulge anything related to your immigration status, and declining to answer is complying with the order.'RELATED STORY | Texas Gov.
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