Guajardo says she's troubled that a clinic would call the cops on an undocumented immigrant trying to access healthcare simply because staffers suspected a fake ID. While Borrego hadn't before visited the Northeast Women's clinic, which is part of the Memorial Hermann Medical Group, she did have a standing doctor-patient relationship with the gynecologist she'd been scheduled to see. Borrego's husband, also undocumented, provided healthcare for the family through his job.

Exemptions to federal patient privacy laws, commonly known as HIPAA, do exist so that healthcare providers can alert law enforcement when, for instance, a patient threatens to do physical harm to himself or others. But Guajardo doubts such exemptions apply to clinic staff who suspect a patient of being undocumented or presenting a fake ID.
The exemption applies or should apply to anyone who has reason to believe someone is scamming taxpayers, including especially illegal aliens who are the largest source of fraud against our government. Deport them all, get them all out of here, and do so as swiftly as possible.