McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) -- Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday ordered hospitals that treat undocumented migrants to collect and send future information on their citizenship to the state.

Abbott is requiring that the Texas Health and Human Services Commission "assess costs to the Texas public hospital system imposed by the federal government's open-border policies," according to the executive order that Abbott signed Thursday afternoon.

"The surge of individuals crossing the southern border has continued," Abbott wrote in his executive order. "Federal law contributes to the growth of uncompensated medical costs by requiring that any individual must be allowed to obtain emergency medical treatment regardless of that individual's immigration status, or willingness or abili

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