Burning Atlanta

This is as real and hardcore as it gets. What do ya' do? Hospitals are required to give emergency care to anyone. Rich, poor, citizen, immigrants, illegal alien, Martian, it doesn't matter. BUT long term none emergency care is a different deal. So after you pass that life or death threshold seems you're subject to getting tossed on the streets.

I do not know how hospitals normally exercise the toss option. Tell them they have to leave? Have security put them in a wheelchair and dump them on the curb? Have them charged with trespassing? What? But in this article the hospital is actively having immigrants, and at least tried to toss one American child born to illegal aliens,  out of the country. They're even picking up the bill for their transport because the hospitals aren't getting any more aid for immigrants, legal or not.  Hospitals are not ICE so the ydon't have the authority to deport so somebody has to give consent. It may be a "Sorry, Ms. Garcia, but you have to go. We can take you outside or fly you to your home country" scenario.

OUCH

Hundreds of legal and illegal immigrants in Arizona are being sent back to their home countries, sometimes against their will, for medical treatment because they lack insurance.

In some cases, the FBI and police, responding to allegations of kidnapping, have been called in to halt such forcible removals, according to patients' lawyers. In one recent case, a sick baby who is a U.S. citizen born to an illegal immigrant was being transferred by helicopter to a waiting air ambulance for a flight to a hospital in Mexico when Tucson police intervened and brought the child back to the hospital.

The forcible removals are the result of federal and state law mandating that only U.S. citizens and legal residents are eligible for Medicaid. As a result, state hospitals are pressured to transport noncitizens, even if they're legally in the U.S., at the hospitals' expense, back to their home countries, at a cost of up to $100,000.