ML/NJ
Hmmmm ... Let me think on it for a while.
By law hospital emergency rooms have to treat...regardless of whether you can pay or not.
Hospitals should be able to ask citizenship status...not so much to deport people....but to collect from their host nation...or US employer who illegally hired
“Why is it that there are no calls to imprison doctors/hospitals who treat illegals, or teachers/schools that teach their children here illegally?”
Or Government Employees at all levels who provide them benefits, or law enforcement agencies who would rather not do the paperwork when an illegal is stopped/arrested for a violation, or mayors and city councils that give “sanctuary” within their jurisdiction, or the IRS for assigning “TIN” numbers to illegals, or Social Security Administration for not vigorously chasing down rampant social security fraud.....
We may as well be “inclusive” if we want to solve the problem.
[Why is it that there are no calls to imprison doctors/hospitals who treat illegals, or teachers/schools that teach their children here illegally?]
Because doctors, hospitals, teachers and schools are mandated by law not to refuse service. They’d be imprisoned if they DIDN’T treat/teach them.
The federal government requires them too do so. Basic humanity requires us to do so. About this aspect of the issue, your gripe and mine is who pays for all this? I suggest that the country of origin pay their citizens bills. Thus you and I no longer have to pay their bills through taxes and insurance and their countries of origin finally have a disincentive in allowing illegal aliens to come here. And yes we do have the ability to make them pay. We just don’t have the will.