Who is allowed to ask about immigration status?

Question

I know in some places, the police are not allowed to ask. They also don't ask when I sign my kids up for school. So who is allowed to ask and who isn't allowed to ask? I want to know so I can sue people who ask me.

Answer 1

It varies from state to state, you will have to check on your particular state. Also, follow the new laws passed in your own state, as well as federally, as many of the changes are recent. When in doubt, ask- and don't ask on Yahoo Answers, you probably won't get a correct response.

Answer 2

In idea it appears like a sturdy idea yet how ought to you want it in case you've been born in u . s . & your mom and father are individuals yet are from yet another us of a so that you seem overseas & you've been continually requested for information of citizenship? If the police had performed their job and ran the right historic past verify on Erik Jovani Martinez at the same time as he became arrested this training ought to have shown up . I stay further south then Scottsdale & we do not have any such software. i presumed absolutely INS or boarder patrol had the right to ask those questions. at the same time as i move to Nogales,Sonora Mexico & come decrease back to the u . s . i must practice my passport to a boarder patrol agent. Then about 20 minutes up the I 19 there is yet another checkpoint also manned with the help of boarder patrol brokers asking if i'm a US citizen. That appears like a waste of time & money as that checkpoint has been there for years so what illegals are going to force up the I 19 understanding that there is yet another checkpoint?

Answer 3

Any one that has authority. You can not sue anyone simply because your immigration status is in question, unless you were abused by a police officer. So, do not waste your time trying to sue any one.

Answer 4

Don't listen to the first two answers. Obviously they know nothing. I don't know much either but I am smart enough to know that not any one can ask for your status. Remember this is a free country and we can walk around free without having to tell every one our legal or illegal status. I know there is some people that are allowed to ask like INS officials but I am not sure who else is allowed to ask.

Answer 5

If you are legal, then you shouldn't have a problem with anyone asking. If you are illegal, then I can see why you are concerned, but even then, Can a criminal such as yourself, sue someone for asking a question?

Answer 6

New federal rules for Medicare payments to health care providers are expected to take effect Oct. 1, requiring medical workers "to make a good faith effort to obtain citizenship information" from patients who receive emergency care in hospitals or doctors' offices.

Federal authorities say the information will be used only to make sure that health care providers are reimbursed for the costs of caring for undocumented patients.

The new rules were issued in July after Congress voted last year to establish a $1 billion immigrant health program under Medicare law. The money will be distributed over four years to hundreds of hospitals, physicians and ambulance companies around the country. Those in Texas are expected to share in the state's $47 million cut, second only to California's expected $72 million.

While Congress did not specify how illegal residents were to be identified, the proposed guidelines require asking patients directly whether they are in the country legally.

About 7 million illegal immigrants were estimated to be living in the United States in 2000 - slightly more than 1 million of them in Texas, according to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

The federal government has struggled for years to determine their financial effects on the health care system.

"Determining the number of undocumented aliens treated at a hospital is challenging," the General Accounting Office said in a May report. "Hospitals generally do not collect information on patients' immigration status because undocumented aliens are reluctant to identify themselves."

Under the new rules, citizenship information would be sent to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where a "designated contractor" would verify that each patient qualified for coverage. Hospitals would also have to share the information with doctors and ambulance providers.

Each patient would be asked questions such as, "Are you a United States citizen?" and "Are you a lawful permanent resident, an alien with a valid and current Employment Authorization Card or other qualified alien?"

The patient's name would be recorded, along with photocopies of identifying documents and any questions not answered.

The new rules were to have taken effect Sept. 1. But Mary Kahn, a spokeswoman for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said the agency decided to take more time to consider the 100-plus comments about the policy that came in over the summer.

Although final guidelines on obtaining patient identification won't be decided for several weeks, hospitals began enrolling in the voluntary program Sept. 1.

The National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, which represents more than 100 public hospitals serving a large share of the nation's illegal population, has asked Washington to stipulate that a patient's immigration status would be "protected information" that could never be used for deportation.

Dr. Ron Anderson, Parkland's president and chief executive officer, has declined to estimate how many of the facility's 257,200 patients might lack legal status. But there are indications that the number could be significant.

For example, about 80 percent of the women who gave birth at Parkland last year qualified for Medicaid funding reserved for undocumented mothers.

Under the new rules, citizenship information would be sent to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where a "designated contractor" would verify that each patient qualified for coverage. Hospitals would also have to share the information with doctors and ambulance providers.

Also in many states,city and small towns any law enforcement officer has the right to ask you anything he/she wants

Answer 7

In Houston they just recently passed a bill that police can and will be asking for proof of citizenship during routine traffic stops. It si stoo bad it took one of their own to die during a traffic stop for them to realize that measures need to be taken.

Answer 8

HaHa! Oh my gosh, you have perpetuated a very nice joke. I wonder if you are actually a white male, probably middle class? Your questions are so absurdly over the top its impossible to believe you aren't actually participating in satire. Nicely done.

Answer 9

Employers ask all the time!

Answer 10

social security, dmv, passport agency and embassy. some goverment employers