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BUSH TO EASE RULE LIMITING HIV-POSITIVE FOREIGN VISITORS
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Dec. 3, 2006 | Sabin Russell

Posted on 12/03/2006 9:29:18 PM PST by janetgreen

President Bush will ease a long-standing rule barring HIV-positive people from entering the United States without a special waiver, a ban long criticized by human rights groups.

Because of the rule, organizers of the biannual International AIDS Conferences have not held a gathering in the United States since 1990, when San Francisco hosted the event.

The White House chose Friday, World AIDS Day, to announce that Bush would issue an executive order allowing HIV-positive people to enter the United States on short-term tourist or business visas without having to seek special permission.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: aids; aliens; bush; communicabledisease; communicablediseases; disease; hiv; immigrantlist; immigration; invasionusa; visas
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To: janetgreen

Bush is weakening very badly these days - pray HARD for him!


41 posted on 12/03/2006 10:39:28 PM PST by prophetic
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To: Kakaze

No it is never enough for them. The special treatment and privileges the HIV/AID crowd and gays get are unreal. What about people like my grandfather who served in WWII and died of cancer this summer.

Why import more individuals with HIV/AIDS? Why give them the chance to come here and possibly infect US citizens? No short visas and keep the restrictions.


42 posted on 12/03/2006 10:49:50 PM PST by YoungSoutherner
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To: janetgreen

Exactly why they want to come, if they couldn't ride the back of US taxpayers for their medical treatment no one would be having this discussion. They are just insisting on getting to this country, we must be offering something good.


43 posted on 12/03/2006 10:56:08 PM PST by YoungSoutherner
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To: advertising guy
you know you have less than 1/2 the story

So what is the rest of the story. You're the advertising guy. What positive spin can you put on it?

44 posted on 12/03/2006 11:02:44 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Indy Pendance

> Let's all pile on Bush now. Forget facts, forget the source, just read the headline, let's just bash, bash, bash!

So... he's not easing the rule?

Source?


45 posted on 12/03/2006 11:18:11 PM PST by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender!)
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To: janetgreen

I was just about to turn in for the night ... thought I'd check the pings ... I'll take a peek at that link ... I'm not in the mood for nightmares tonight. It's almost as though we're doing all we can to destroy this country as quickly as possible.


46 posted on 12/04/2006 12:01:29 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: janetgreen

Oh GEESH!

Rutherford is a credible organization ... sigh ...

Excerpt:

To make matters worse, in excess of 7,000 new cases of leprosy have been diagnosed in the U.S. in the past three years. As the “Silent Invasion” report concludes, “illegal alien immigrants from India, Brazil, the Caribbean and up through Mexico have fueled the resurgence into the United States.”

Chagas, called the kissing bug disease because the parasite favors the face as a route of infection, comes in acute and chronic forms, which can damage your heart and intestines. This parasite now threatens our blood supply, yet no means to test the blood is currently available. Ironically, the public health community has been aware of this danger for years. “Hundreds of blood recipients may be silently infected,” writes Donald G. McNeil, Jr. in the New York Times (November 18, 2003), “and there is no effective treatment for them. After a decade, 10 to 30 percent of them will die when their hearts or intestines, weakened by the disease, explode.” Three people received Chagas infected organs in 2001, the first such cases ever reported in the United States. Two of those three died. Moreover, “Dengue Fever, reports of polio, and now, the first case of malaria in Texas trickle into the United States as the invasion of illegal aliens increases in numbers.”

Undiagnosed disease due to uncontrolled illegal immigration is not merely confined to the border states. This health care crisis spreads daily across the nation. In 2002, Northern Virginia reported a 17% increase in tuberculosis cases. Prince William County alone reported a staggering 188% increase over the previous year. Health officials link immigrants to this outbreak and credit them with introducing the drug resistant strains. And in Queens, N.Y., the health department found that “immigrants” made up 81% of new TB cases in 2001.

What does this mean for American citizens? As the “Silent Invasion” report concludes: “It means your children are at risk when attending school or going to the movies. It means that when a classmate from a foreign country sneezes or coughs, your child may be at risk for any number of diseases. If you eat at a fast food restaurant, a person infected with hepatitis could prepare your food. If you need a blood transfusion, the blood could be infected with Chagas Disease.”


Lovely!

In the old days when you arrived on Ellis Island, a PHYSICAL was required and if you had some kind of a disease you were SENT BACK IMMEDIATELY!

What is going on with BUSH?


47 posted on 12/04/2006 12:05:38 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: nmh

"What is going on with BUSH?"

He doesn't have to pander to conservatives anymore.


48 posted on 12/04/2006 12:11:09 AM PST by EnochPowellWasRight
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To: janetgreen
Apparently we are already medicating them where they live.

American taxpayers AIDS and abets, sexually irresponsible behavior.
49 posted on 12/04/2006 12:25:31 AM PST by F.J. Mitchell ( Is not death also victory in a war against an abomination so vile you could never live with it?)
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To: janetgreen
George Bush now has San Fransicko values. Pathetic.


50 posted on 12/04/2006 12:30:11 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: EnochPowellWasRight
He;s screwing the GOP ... something awful.

is he so small minded that because he is basically a lame duck he's going to screw his supporters in retaliation?
51 posted on 12/04/2006 12:31:19 AM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: nmh

Clinton, Reagan and now Bush all had really bad last two years. Maybe it might be worth having just a six year term adn that is it. Maybe 8 years of grueling 24 hour 7 day a week Presidency is too much.


52 posted on 12/04/2006 12:59:59 AM PST by napscoordinator
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To: All

BTTP


53 posted on 12/04/2006 3:10:16 AM PST by Kakaze (Exterminate Islamofacism and apologize for nothing.....except not doing it sooner!)
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To: EagleUSA; janetgreen
Why doesn't he just "ease restrictions" on Islamofascists hell-bent on killing Americans??

Have you looked at the shear number allowed in LEGALLY since 9/11? It's staggering. Blackbird.

54 posted on 12/04/2006 3:51:26 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Stay out of the Bushes, unless you're RINO hunting!)
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To: Indy Pendance; janetgreen
Let's all pile on Bush now. Forget facts, forget the source, just read the headline, let's just bash, bash, bash!

Tons better than breaking in new kneepads everyday. Blackbird.

55 posted on 12/04/2006 3:53:13 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Stay out of the Bushes, unless you're RINO hunting!)
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To: janetgreen
At last, the Democrats will like him.

Won't they? He's been trying awfully hard.

56 posted on 12/04/2006 3:59:21 AM PST by Jim Noble (To preserve the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity)
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To: Lancey Howard; janetgreen
George Bush now has San Fransicko values. Pathetic. Yes.
57 posted on 12/04/2006 4:05:08 AM PST by The_Eaglet
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To: janetgreen

Just one MORE reason to be disappointed with Mr. Bush


58 posted on 12/04/2006 4:11:42 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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To: janetgreen

Here's a little clue for Bush and anyone else who never took a course on Immunology. The test for HIV (even the abbreviation is a misnomer) is an ANTIBODY test, not an ANTIGEN test. It merely means that at some time in the past (most likely the very distant past) you came in contact with a harmless passenger retrovirus. You may have had a sniffle or two and that was it. You will not die unless you happen to be a male homosexual or an IV drug user. I can't explain why here, but take my word for it. Don't take AZT or any other DNA chain terminator or cocktail therapy. You'll be just fine.


59 posted on 12/04/2006 4:21:53 AM PST by Doc Savage ("You couldn't tame me, but you taught me.................")
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To: Indy Pendance
Let's all pile on Bush now. Forget facts, forget the source, just read the headline, let's just bash, bash, bash!

OK wise guy, I read the article and think this executive order is outrageous, why don't YOU think Bush should be 'bashed' for this abysmal decision?

WHY on Earth should we be making it EASIER for HIV-infected foreigners to enter this Country?!?

Unless they are visiting the U.S. for medical treatment and have been pre-authorized by State and DHS, they should stay the Hell home!
60 posted on 12/04/2006 4:23:13 AM PST by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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