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Activists: Denial of Hospital Care to Immigrants May Be Unconstitutional

By Peter Gorman

Fort Worth Weekly | April 26, 2007

Members of Allied Communities of Tarrant are pressing the John Peter Smith hospital system to provide its full range of medical services to undocumented residents -- they now believe that the denial of those services may violate the Texas Constitution.

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Tags: illegal, immigrant

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