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Child migrants to be held in detention longer under new Trump administration rule: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled new rules that would allow officials to...

https://patterico.com/2019/08/22/trump-administrations-new-rules-to-deal-with-families-claiming-asylum/

9th Circuit lifts nationwide injunction against Trump plan to limit asylum. Court: US can reject asylum along parts of Mexico border: A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for the U....

https://patterico.com/2019/08/16/9th-circuit-lifts-injunction-on-asylum-in-texas-and-new-nexico/

I want to share this comment by Paul Montagu: he story of Francisco Erwin Galicia–the American citizen who was held by CBP/ICE for 26 days and was not released until after the media got wind�...

https://patterico.com/2019/07/27/american-citizen-detained-by-ice-for-23-days/

U.S. Supreme Court lets Trump use disputed funds for border wall: The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday handed President Donald Trump a victory by letting his administration redirect $2.5 billion in ...

https://patterico.com/2019/07/26/scotus-agrees-with-use-of-military-funds-for-border-wall/

Trump to end asylum protections for Central American migrants at US-Mexico border: The Trump administration is moving to end asylum protections for most Central American migrants, the Department...

https://patterico.com/2019/07/15/administration-proposes-new-asylum-rules/

Courthouse News: Justice Department Cleared to Tie Police Grants to ICE Cooperation Reversing, a divided Ninth Circuit panel ruled Friday the Justice Department acted lawfully when it withheld f...

https://patterico.com/2019/07/12/9th-circuit/

Following up on Trump Surrenders on Census Change, NPR reports: President Trump announced Thursday he would sign an executive order to obtain data about the U.S. citizenship and noncitizenship s...

https://patterico.com/2019/07/12/trumps-eo-to-obtain-data-on-everyones-status/

El Paso Times — Presidential candidate Cory Booker visits Juárez to help escort migrants seeking asylum: JUÁREZ, Mexico — Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Cory Booker walked...

https://patterico.com/2019/07/04/cory-booker-goes-to-juarez/

Yesterday, Dana posted Political Cartoonist Depicts President Trump Standing Over Two Drowned Migrants. The underlying story involved an El Salvadoran migrant, Óscar Martínez, and his daughter...

https://patterico.com/2019/07/02/border/

The Hill — Judge blocks Trump from using billions in military funds for border wall: A federal judge on Friday issued a ruling blocking the Trump administration from tapping billions of dollar...

https://patterico.com/2019/06/29/federal-judge-enjoins-trump-on-wall/

Houston Chronicle: Worst I’ve ever seen’, claims Texas Republican congressman about conditions for detained migrants In recent days, there has been increased attention to the living, health ...

https://patterico.com/2019/06/24/worst-ive-ever-seen/

Texas Governor Greg Abbott: Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX I just deployed 1,000 National Guard Troops to the border. This is needed because more than 45,000 people were apprehended crossing our bor...

https://patterico.com/2019/06/21/gov-abbott-dont-mess-with-texas/

Reuters — Mexico detains 791 undocumented migrants, National Guard starts to patrol southern border: Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement late on Saturday that 791...

https://patterico.com/2019/06/16/mexico-takes-on-trump-and-immigration/

Reuters – Exclusive: Asylum seekers returned to Mexico rarely win bids to wait in U.S. The article concerns a new Trump policy called the “Migrant Protection Protocols” (MPP), which has se...

https://patterico.com/2019/06/12/asylum-in-mexico/

The Hill – Judge rejects House Democrats’ attempt to block Trump use of military funds for border wall: A federal judge has ruled against congressional Democrats who sought to temporarily st...

https://patterico.com/2019/06/03/headlines-the-wall/

El Paso Times – Privately funded border wall built at El Paso: A private group has built a $6 million bollard-type wall at the border on private property near Mount Cristo Rey with funds raise...

https://patterico.com/2019/05/27/one-mile-the-privately-funded-wall/

In a follow-up to US NEWS: Another 16-Year-Old Migrant Child Has Died in Government Custody, CBS News reported last week that the Texas facility the boy was in stopped taking migrants because of...

https://patterico.com/2019/05/25/follow-up-immigration-headlines/

US News: Another 16-Year-Old Migrant Child Has Died in Government Custody The report notes that five children have died since December and all were from Guatemala. — DRJ

https://patterico.com/2019/05/20/us-news-another-16-year-old-migrant-child-has-died-in-government-custody/

Let’s look at immigrant detention. Where are migrants detained in the United States? Most come across on the Southern border — California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas — and most detentio...

https://patterico.com/2019/05/18/recent-media-reports-on-immigrant-detention/

Breitbart: Trump Plan Mandates E-Verify, Protecting U.S. Jobs for Americans But: Politico: White House may include mandatory E-Verify in immigration proposal McClatchy: Trump administration eye...

https://patterico.com/2019/05/18/media-trump-willwill-not-require-e-verify/

Hit and run driver kills Michael Delaney May, and is now being held by ICE: A pedestrian who authorities say was struck by a vehicle in Hays County on Saturday evening was found dead hours after ...

https://patterico.com/2018/09/25/fatal-hit-and-run-driver-now-being-held-by-ice/

There is an important oral argument taking place today in the Fifth Circuit regarding Obama’s amnesty. First, a paragraph of background: there have been two amnesty-related cases of note percol...

https://patterico.com/2015/04/17/oral-argument-today-on-fifth-circuit-case-challenging-obamas-most-recent-amnesty/

Failing to deport illegal criminals costs lives. Again: The Obama administration released illegal immigrants who went on to commit more crimes, including charges of 19 murders, 3 attempted murder...

https://patterico.com/2012/08/01/obama-deport-the-criminals-last/

Because if he went to high school, Obama says let him go: In a startling allegation, the president of the union representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claimed illegal immigrant...

https://patterico.com/2012/07/26/obama-deports-the-criminals-first-unless-the-illegal-says-he-went-to-high-school/

Illegal immigrant smuggling just killed more people in a single incident than James Holmes killed at the Aurora movie theater: With little more than photographs and fingerprints, authorities were...

https://patterico.com/2012/07/24/14-killed-in-immigrant-smuggling-crash/

Let’s pretend that a man enters your house without your permission. Then he breaks one of your dinner plates. When you complain, you are told: “What’s the big deal? You broke one of your di...

https://patterico.com/2012/07/13/why-illegal-immigrants-killing-people-is-especially-galling-an-observation/

Houston: A day care employee who police say ran a red light and crashed a van full of kids on Monday is in the country illegally and doesn’t even have a driver’s license, according to investi...

https://patterico.com/2012/07/12/more-deaths-caused-by-illegal-aliens/

A triple murderer should have been deported after his previous robbery and assault conviction leading to a prison sentence. Gee, maybe we should Deport the Criminals First: A day after authoritie...

https://patterico.com/2012/03/27/deport-the-criminals-first-two-stories/

Ah, San Francisco: A bill being drafted by a state legislator would limit local law enforcement from holding arrestees on behalf of immigration authorities seeking to deport them. Assemblyman Tom...

https://patterico.com/2012/01/28/san-francisco-based-state-legislator-fights-deport-the-criminals-first-policy/

Because California state government has so much money that legislators hardly know what to do with it all, state senators passed a bill today to give financial aid to illegal immigrants who are c...

https://patterico.com/2011/08/31/l-a-times-loves-them-some-financial-aid-to-illegal-immigrants/

Pres. Obama’s re-election campaign finds a new gear: In a move that could shake up the U.S. immigration system, the Department of Homeland Security is going to begin reviewing all 300,000 pend...

https://patterico.com/2011/08/18/deport-the-criminals-first-and-only/

What will the voter fraud denialists say about this? The New Mexico secretary of state’s office is cross checking the state’s voter rolls with a list of thousands of foreign nationals who hav...

https://patterico.com/2011/03/15/clear-evidence-of-voter-fraud-in-new-mexico/

You know what seems like a good idea? Flooding Mexico with guns! Federal agent John Dodson says what he was asked to do was beyond belief. He was intentionally letting guns go to Mexico? “Yes m...

https://patterico.com/2011/03/04/obama-administration-deliberately-allows-guns-into-mexico-how-many-have-died-as-a-result/

The city of Escondido in California is concentrating on deporting illegal aliens with a criminal record. If you cover this story, you can choose to illustrate the effects by giving anecdotes conc...

https://patterico.com/2011/02/05/l-a-times-how-dare-escondido-target-illegal-aliens-who-have-done-nothing-but-be-illegal-aliens-and-er-drunk-drivers-and-child-molesters/

He says illegal alien crime is an increasing problem: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, delivering her first State of Homeland Security address last Thursday, gave an upbeat account o...

https://patterico.com/2011/01/31/sheriff-of-the-year-napolitano-full-of-crap-on-the-problem-of-illegals/

Tim Rutten writes another column that leaves the reader screaming in frustration: What really ought to concern people most are Diaz Santillan’s allegations that during the nine years she worked...

https://patterico.com/2010/10/04/tim-rutten-whitmans-firing-of-illegal-maid-an-odd-way-to-treat-her/

The San Antonio Express-News recently reported: Gunmen presumed to be Mexican drug gangsters opened fire Wednesday on a couple riding personal watercraft on the binational Falcon Lake reservoir, ...

https://patterico.com/2010/10/03/mexican-pirates-kill-american-citizen/

I have a new column up today at Pajamas Media dealing with the recent police shooting of a knife-wielding man near downtown Los Angeles. It begins as follows: Everyone knows there are few certai...

https://patterico.com/2010/09/16/come-at-a-cop-with-a-knife-expect-to-be-shot/

ABC News: James Lee, the bomb-laden gunman who was killed by police in the lobby of the Discovery Channel, was once convicted and imprisoned for smuggling illegal immigrants into the country from...

https://patterico.com/2010/09/02/illegal-immigrant-hating-liberal-smuggled-in-illegal-immigrants/

The repeat drunk driver was out on bond pending a deportation hearing. Now a nun is dead: The man charged in connection with the Sunday crash that took the life of a Bristow nun is an illegal ali...

https://patterico.com/2010/08/03/deport-the-criminals-first-ice-failures-lead-to-death-of-nun/

The State of Arizona has appealed Judge Susan Bolton’s order enjoining sections of SB 1070 as immigration protesters surged in Phoenix: “Arizona asked an appeals court Thursday to lift a jud...

https://patterico.com/2010/07/29/arizona-appeals-immigration-order/

On this blog I have had a recurring series called “Deport the Criminals First.” The idea is that, unless you are in favor of a complete open border policy, you would want to see the most unde...

https://patterico.com/2010/07/29/arizona-ruling-at-urging-of-obama-administration-undermines-deport-the-criminals-first/

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton has issued a preliminary injunction blocking the four most controversial provisions of Arizona’s new immigration law: “A federal judge on Wednesday blocked s...

https://patterico.com/2010/07/28/judge-enjoins-four-arizona-immigration-provisions/

Legal Insurrection explains how the Obama Administration may nullify Arizona’s new immigration law: “My expectation is that if the ruling goes as currently expected, and the status check pro...

https://patterico.com/2010/07/24/how-obama-could-nullify-arizonas-immigration-law/

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton held hearings today on two legal challenges to Arizona’s immigration law set to take effect July 29th, including a morning hearing involving claims by the ACLU...

https://patterico.com/2010/07/23/judge-weighs-fate-of-arizona-immigration-law/

Like Mexico, seven Latin American nations have requested permission to file amicus briefs in a lawsuit opposing Arizona’s new immigration law: “Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nic...

https://patterico.com/2010/07/19/taking-sides/

Yesterday a car bomb in downtown Juarez ambushed and killed 2 federal police officers, 1 local police officer and injured 7 federal police officers and 1 camera newsman. Reports say this is the ...

https://patterico.com/2010/07/16/burying-the-border-dead/

Today the Obama Administration sued the State of Arizona, challenging the constitutionality of a recent law that targets illegal immigrants and arguing Arizona doesn’t have the right to pre-em...

https://patterico.com/2010/07/06/u-s-vs-arizona/

Post at NRO, sent by a Denver reader: “Today I celebrate my 21st anniversary of my U.S. Citizenship. Received in uniform, on board my ship “Old Ironsides” (USS Constitution), in the middle...

https://patterico.com/2010/07/04/i-love-my-life/

California Rep. Pete Stark mocked a Minuteman who asked what the federal government would do to stop illegal immigration: “Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., no stranger to controversy, mocked the ide...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/30/pete-starks-edgy-town-hall-meeting/

Surprise! “A 15-year-old Mexican boy shot and killed by a U.S. Border Patrol agent was among El Paso’s most wanted juvenile immigrant smugglers, according to federal arrest records reviewed ...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/26/mexican-killed-by-el-paso-border-patrol-on-most-wanted-list/

ARIZONA GOVERNOR JAN BREWER: “Washington is broken, Mr. President. Do your job. Secure our borders. Arizona and the nation are waiting.” — DRJ

https://patterico.com/2010/06/25/brewer-to-obama-this-is-an-outrage/

Allahpundit at Hot Air reports Arizona Senator Jon Kyl is backtracking on his “He said, He said” immigration dispute with President Obama: “Kyl adds that President Obama is still “not do...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/25/back-and-forth-with-jon-kyl/

The White House has picked former Phoenix and Houston police chief Harold Hurtt, reportedly a supporter of sanctuary cities, to serve as liaison between ICE and local law enforcement: “Harold ...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/25/white-house-picks-immigration-enforcement-critic-for-ice-liaison/

Jake Tapper reports the Obama Administration’s one-week countdown declaring legal war against Arizona has started. Mexico will undoubtedly seek leave to file an amicus brief supporting the Oba...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/22/report-doj-suit-against-arizona-will-be-filed-next-week/

Tom Maguire points out the New York Times reports crime is down in Arizona (“On Border Violence, Truth Pales Compared to Ideas”) when it’s actually down in urban areas but up along the bor...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/20/arizona-crime-statistics/

According to Arizona Senator Jon Kyl, President Obama won’t secure the border until Americans agree to amnesty: “On June 18, 2010, Arizona Republican Senator Jon Kyl told the audience at a N...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/20/the-border-shakedown/

A Harvard University student who emigrated illegally from Mexico to Texas with his family at age 4 will be allowed to stay in the U.S. for an indeterminate period. The student, Balderas, had bee...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/19/harvard-student-can-stay-in-u-s/

Hillary Clinton was right. President Obama’s Justice Department announced it will sue to overturn Arizona’s new immigration law: “Administration officials initially would not confirm Clint...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/18/obama-administration-will-sue-arizona/

Two weeks ago today, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer met with President Obama in the Oval Office. The talked cordially but without reaching an agreement on immigration and the new Arizona law. After...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/17/obamas-promise-to-arizona/

In an effort avoid violence and tension that arose from the shooting of a 15-year-old Mexico boy last week, U.S. and Mexican authorities announced that Juarez police will join the Border Patrol ...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/15/juarez-police-will-aid-border-patrol/

Via George Will back in March 2010, Law Professor Lino Graglia on birthright citizenship: “Sen. Lyman Trumbull of Illinois was, Graglia writes, one of two “principal authors of the citizensh...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/13/birthright-citizenship/

No, he doesn’t. I explain today on Pajamas Media. A sample: In criticizing SB 1070, Chief Beck was most emphatically not speaking on behalf of most LAPD officers, but rather on behalf of the m...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/12/does-chief-beck-speak-for-lapd-officers-on-sb-1070/

A suburban New Orleans Sheriff is screening for illegal immigrants among the BP clean-up workers: “St. Bernard Parish Sheriff Jack A. Stephens says in a news release that his department asked ...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/09/screening-immigrants-on-the-gulf/

A 15-year-old Mexican boy was shot and killed yesterday by a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the Paseo del Norte bridge in El Paso, Texas. Reports say several agents had been attacked by illegal i...

https://patterico.com/2010/06/08/el-paso-border-patrol-agent-shoots-attacker/

President Barack Obama and his lawyer met today with Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and her lawyer and like many discussions involving opposing clients and counsel, their meeting was “cordial”....

https://patterico.com/2010/06/03/obama-and-brewer-meet-at-white-house/

LAPD Chief Charlie Beck is the latest to weigh in with criticism of Arizona’s SB 1070, saying that “rime will go up if this becomes law in Arizona or any other state.” Sadly, in his critiq...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/28/lapd-chief-joins-ranks-of-arizona-bashers/

A recent CNN poll shows less than 20% of Americans support a boycott of Arizona: “According to the poll, 57 percent support Arizona’s controversial new immigration law, in line with other re...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/27/cnn-poll-arizona-immigration-law/

President Obama will reportedly order more boots and bucks for the border: “President Barack Obama will send 1,200 National Guard troops to boost security along the U.S.-Mexico border, officia...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/25/more-boots-on-the-border/

Juarez, Mexico’s drug violence has claimed its 1,000th victim of the year, and “more than 5,260 people have been killed in the Juárez area since a drug cartel war began in 2008.” Seems li...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/24/juarez-homicides-hit-1000/

Seattle’s KING TV (via Drudge): “n illegal immigrant accused of raping a woman in Edmonds Sunday has been deported nine times. That’s much more than previously reported.” Heavens. I hope...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/23/rape-suspect-was-deported-nine-times/

Via Free Republic, Judicial Watch reports Massachusetts authorities knew an accomplice of the Times Square bomber was in the U.S. illegally but did nothing because of sanctuary policies: “Khan...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/22/sanctuary-policies-may-shield-terrorists/

From the Chicago Tribune via Allahpundit, ICE may not do the job Americans want them to do: “Echoing comments by President Barack Obama and others in the administration, Morton said that Arizo...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/21/ice-chief-we-may-not-do-our-job/

Mexican President Felipe Calderon appeared before Congress today and lectured America on drugs, guns, amnesty and Arizona’s immigration laws. Meanwhile, some El Paso Border Patrol agents were ...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/20/calderon-lectures-the-u-s/

Rule of law, baby! Rule. Of. LAW! First lady Michelle Obama told the child of an apparent illegal immigrant on Wednesday that immigration policy should be “fixed” so her mother could remain i...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/19/michelle-obama-to-daughter-of-illegal-we-gotta-get-your-mom-some-papers/

At the L.A. Times, Hector Tobar recently wrote a column about the dilemma of whether to send his mother, a U.S. citizen living in Guatemala, back to Arizona to see her old friends. The problem: s...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/19/l-a-times-columnist-dare-i-send-mom-to-arizona/

From John at PowerLine, the Obama Administration apologized for the Arizona immigration law during U.S.-China human rights talks, equating it to Chinese human rights violations: “This is unfre...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/16/a-new-era-in-u-s-china-human-rights/

Last year at the 2009 Miss USA pageant, Californian Carrie Prejean said she knew she would lose after being asked a question about gay marriage: “Miss California Carrie Prejean is disappointed...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/16/politically-correct-pageants/

Arizona wants to get control of illegal immigration so it can remain fiscally solvent and help its neediest citizens. California has spent itself to the point of bankruptcy and may not be able t...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/16/arizona-vs-california/

Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin are working together to support Arizona and Secure the Border: — DRJ

https://patterico.com/2010/05/16/secure-the-border-support-arizona/

President Obama approved the use of unmanned drones on the border between the El Paso region and Arizona (in other words, in New Mexico — the Rodney Dangerfield of States): “The Obama admini...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/14/obama-approves-drones-on-border/

The L.A. Times is asking readers whether the City Council was right to vote for a boycott of Arizona. Here is the poll question and 4 choices: Was the L.A. City Council right to pass a boycott o...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/14/an-la-times-poll/

What’s Attorney General Eric Holder’s position on the Arizona immigration law? He’s critical of it even though he admits he hasn’t read it: “Despite repeatedly voicing concerns about A...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/13/eric-holder-on-the-arizona-immigration-law/

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll reveals discontent among Americans that favors Republicans: “The findings suggest that public opinion has hardened in advance of the 2010 elections, making ...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/12/wsjnbc-poll-released/

My police officer’s perspective on the Arizona law on illegal immigrants is up today on NRO. A sample: First of all, as any police officer knows, it’s difficult to discern the ethnicity of a...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/12/whos-afraid-of-the-police-in-arizona/

Los Angeles won’t balance its budget and both Fitch and Moody’s have downgraded LA’s debt, so what does the City Council do? Vote to boycott Arizona: “Los Angeles on Wednesday became the...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/12/la-city-council-authorizes-arizona-boycott/

Dan Collins on human rights: “Pelosi says we can’t tell 12 million illegals to get out or go to jail; we sure can tell 250 million actual citizens to buy government-approved health insurance...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/11/deep-thought/

Allahpundit calls it brutal. I call it brutally true: — DRJ

https://patterico.com/2010/05/07/do-your-job-and-secure-the-border/

At The Jury, aunursa posts on the students who were sent home for wearing American flags on Cinco de Mayo. — DRJ

https://patterico.com/2010/05/06/american-flags-not-welcome/

The BP oil spill has been supplanted in the Houston headlines by the death of Elizabeth Mandala, a Sugar Land senior who rode horses and friends say dreamed of being a prom queen. Mandala disapp...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/05/texas-teen-dies-in-mexico/

Michael Barone is in Britain covering the British election and he notes the polls show the Conservatives, led by David Cameron, are favored to win: “The latest British poll results suggest, on...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/05/election-in-britain/

Which State is subverting American federal immigration law — Arizona or New York? William A. Jacobson has the answer. — DRJ

https://patterico.com/2010/05/03/two-states-and-federal-immigration-law/

Over at Pajamas Media today, I have a piece in support of Arizona’s new immigration law. A sample: But even as the law’s opponents are revealed as hysterics, it will still be uncomfortable f...

https://patterico.com/2010/05/01/dueling-columns-on-the-arizona-immigration-law/

A Phoenix-area deputy attempting a remote drug bust was reportedly shot with an AK-47 (via My Fox Phoenix): “A Pinal County sheriff’s deputy is recovering after he’s shot by a group of sus...

https://patterico.com/2010/04/30/arizona-deputy-reportedly-shot-with-ak-47/

Apparently President Obama has taken immigration reform off his agenda: “The president noted that lawmakers may lack the “appetite” to take on immigration while many of them are up for re-...

https://patterico.com/2010/04/29/obama-puts-immigration-reform-on-hold/

If Governor Perry gets his way, Texas won’t join Arizona in passing legislation giving law enforcement a role in curbing illegal immigration. Instead, Perry continues to ask for more National ...

https://patterico.com/2010/04/29/texas-wont-join-arizona-on-immigration/

In response to the neighboring state’s new policy on illegal immigration, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors is considering a resolution to end all city contracts with Arizona-based compan...

https://patterico.com/2010/04/27/boycotting-arizona/

Governor Jan Brewer has signed Arizona’s controversial immigration bill: “Gov. Jan Brewer ignored criticism from President Barack Obama on Friday and signed into law a bill supporters said w...

https://patterico.com/2010/04/23/arizona-governor-signs-immigration-bill/

The Obama Administration has brought us health care reform, financial reform, and next up may be immigration reform: “Speaking in the Rose Garden where 24 active-duty U.S. service members from...

https://patterico.com/2010/04/23/next-up-immigration-reform/

Once mandatory purchasing of health insurance kicks in, will that apply to illegals as well? And if they show up to the ER without insurance, are they going to be fined? Or will they be the one c...

https://patterico.com/2010/03/22/will-illegals-have-to-buy-that-mandatory-health-insurance-will-they-be-fined-if-when-they-dont/