• tyler@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    none of that is going to happen. hospitals in america are required to provide care in emergencies, no matter if you have documentation or not. you’re not getting ICE called (no hospital is going to do that) and no cops are going to come in to do a background check (what would they check? you don’t have any ID, you’re not required to provide an ID, there’s no crime being committed).

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      2 days ago

      hospitals in america are required to provide care in emergencies

      Yes thats why I stated anything further then life saving procedures

      Your not getting ICE called

      While not called, ICE has arrested/deported hospital patients

      you’re not required to privide an ID

      Yes you are? At the very least you must provide contact information and who you are. Hospitals are looking to make money off of you lol, not paying is a crime

      And when I slammed into a mountainside in my car the hospital I stayed at was very pissed I couldn’t remember my phone number (I just got a new one) and ran an entire background check on me

      The only thing hospitals aren’t gonna do is share your medical information with 3rd parties due to HIPPA, they themselves are still gonna collect it tho

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        2 days ago

        They will try to collect it. They still have to treat you, no matter if you give it or not.

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          13 hours ago

          Hospitals are only required to give you life saving medical attention, nothing more, which I already referenced twice. And your not simply allowed to go “thanks for putting my arm back on, bye!” If you refuse to tell the hospital who you are after the fact they can and will call the police since your attempting fraud (refusing to pay), if you provide a false ID (name and address etc) then whoever is handling the billing will call the police for fraud

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      That assumes a person isn’t a Hispanic day laborer at a hospital during an ICE raid. ICE seems to be focusing on places of work for their targets, but with the current pause on the federal judge’s ruling, ICE can violate the fourth amendment anywhere.

      ICE doesn’t need any ID to look at a person and make a judgement based on physical appearance.

      https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/supreme-court-allows-federal-officers-to-more-freely-make-immigration-stops-in-los-angeles/

      In her dissent, Sotomayor argued that the Trump administration, “and now the concurrence” by Kavanaugh, “has all but declared that all Latinos, U.S. citizens or not, who work low wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time, taken away from work, and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents’ satisfaction.”

      In Sotomayor’s view, the Trump administration had not shown that it was ultimately likely to prevail on the merits. In particular, she wrote, “a set of facts cannot constitute reasonable suspicion if it ‘describes a very large category of presumably innocent’ people.” “Allowing the seizure,” she said, “of any Latino speaking Spanish at a car wash in Los Angles tramples the constitutional requirement that officers ‘must have a particularized and objective basis for suspecting the particular person stopped of criminal activity.’”

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      (what would they check? you don’t have any ID, you’re not required to provide an ID, there’s no crime being committed).

      There is actually a crime committed. Giving a fake name? Obtaining services with no intention of paying for them? Legally speaking that’s no different than doing a dine-and-dash at a restaurant. Legally speaking, this is theft or fraud. And the cops could absolutely get involved.

      Once the cops are involved, finding your identity will be trivial. Cops find people in situations like this every day. It’s not like the people who rob liquor stores tell the clerk their real identity. The hospital will have video of you, they’ll have your full identifying information - height, weight, sex, race, plus medically identifying info like scars, blood type, etc.