text:  Last year, Governor DeSantis put in motion a multi-pronged crackdown on illegal immigration and those fostering it in Florida. He signed a law directing hospitals who accept Medicaid to ask patients about their immigration status when they seek treatment. Patients are not forced to give an answer, but the mere asking of the question seems to be doing the trick. According to Politico, Florida's emergency medical assistance program for illegal aliens has seen a 54% dip in expenditures billed to Medicaid this year, with less than two months remaining in the fiscal year since the state immigration law took effect.