Ohio’s new immigration bill would turn hospitals into ICE hunting grounds

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Ohio’s new immigration bill would turn hospitals into ICE hunting grounds: Leila Atassi
Published: Jun. 30, 2025, 5:30 a.m.
 
Ohio lawmakers are pushing a bill that would force hospitals to help ICE arrest patients, turning places of healing into sites of fear and undermining both public health and medical ethics, writes Leila Atassi.Getty Images
 
By Leila Atassi, cleveland.com
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- There’s something uniquely cruel about targeting people in their most vulnerable moments — when they’re sick, scared or clinging to life.

Sadly, it seems our state legislature has a penchant for cruelty.

House Bill 281, introduced in May, would compel any hospital receiving state funds to assist ICE in arresting patients — even detaining them at their bedside. If hospitals refuse, penalties would be steep: state grants cut off, Medicaid agreements terminated, and state agencies free to impose additional penalties allowed under existing law.
 
This bill echoes and amplifies Donald Trump’s revived immigration crackdown. It weaponizes spaces that are supposed to be safe — places of healing and refuge — and turns them into traps.

https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025/06/ohios-new-immigration-bill-would-turn-hospitals-into-ice-hunting-grounds-leila-atassi.html

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And, on top of that, it will increase global warming, lower the Great Lakes water levels, and increase Ohio's chances of nuclear war with Indiana!