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Bill Concept Seeks to Restrict ICE from Patient Care Areas in Oregon Hospitals
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Willamette Week
A bill concept being floated for the short session of the Oregon Legislature would restrict the movements of immigration agents within hospitals and shape how hospitals interact with them.
“State law can not regulate federal agents,” says the ONA’s director of government relations, Paige Spence.
The first is to mandate that applicable health care facilities designate public and private patient care areas—from which, they say federal law enforcement would be restricted without a warrant.
The enforcer of this law would be the Oregon Health Authority, which would be empowered to suspend or revoke licenses for institutions that violate it.
Still, Campos says she has backing from a swath of fellow Democrats in the legislature, and they have many health care professionals at their back.