In order to legitimize this fiasco as an international event, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services within the Department of Homeland Security has allowed special foreign visitor status for thousands that includes a blanket waiver B-2 travel visa for anyone with HIV/AIDS who wants to participate or simply observe the events. Under a ban passed by Congress in 1993, foreign citizens who have HIV or AIDS have typically been prohibited from entering the United States.
Homeland Security went so far as to give the Gay Games, a series of sporting events modeled on the Olympics, a “designated event status,” setting up the allowance of non-citizens with HIV/AIDS to visit Chicago for the games. Unbelievably, this exemption to allow anyone with HIV or full-blown AIDS to come to the U.S. to attend this travesty was granted after help from Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley and U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowksy (D-9). Ironically, B-2 visas are issued under the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services category as a requirement for “pleasure visitors.”
Complete government meltdown on all levels.