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To: celtic gal

“Before these folks are allowed out of a quarantine area, they had best have a complete health screening for things like AIDS, TB etc”

Quite the opposite.

After 22 Years, HIV Travel and Immigration Ban Lifted

“The United States of America has moved one step closer to helping combat the stigma and ignorance that still too often guides public policy debates around HIV/AIDS,” said HRC President Joe Solmonese.

1/4/2010

Washington – The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organization, hailed the announcement that a ban on HIV positive visitors and immigrants entering the country, first established in 1987, has been lifted. A regulation promulgated by the Obama administration last summer and finalized in November goes into effect today, removing HIV from the list of communicable diseases that bar foreign nationals from entering the United States.

http://www.hrc.org/13897.htm


66 posted on 01/15/2010 9:20:31 AM PST by AuntB (If Al Qaeda grew drugs & burned our forests instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
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To: AuntB

Well it is wrong to place the citizens of this nation at risk for PC reasons. WE need to rid ourselves of this group of snakes in DC.


68 posted on 01/15/2010 12:42:15 PM PST by celtic gal
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