and America takes another one in the........
Posted on 10/30/2009 1:16:00 PM PDT by raybbr
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama said Friday the U.S. will overturn a 22-year-old travel and immigration ban against people with HIV early next year. The order will be finalized on Monday, Obama said, completing a process begun during the Bush administration.
The U.S. has been among a dozen countries that bar entry to travelers with visas or anyone seeking a green card based on their HIV status.
"If we want to be the global leader in combatting HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it," Obama said at the White House before signing a bill to extend the Ryan White HIV/AIDS program. Begun in 1990, the program provides medical care, medication and support services to about half a million people, most of them low-income.
The bill is named for an Indiana teenager who contracted AIDS through a blood transfusion at age 13. White went on to fight AIDS-related discrimination against him and others like him and help educate the country about the disease. He died in April 1990 at the age of 18.
His mother, Jeanne White-Ginder, attended the signing ceremony, as did several members of Congress and HIV/AIDS activists.
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Another Friday afternoon shot at the Constitution and the future of the United States.
Another little side linbe program not included in the “pending package”.
Now that the feds are declaring HIV is not as deadly as we have been led to believe, perhaps it is time to start demanding that congress investigate the AIDS scandal. SEE MY PROFILE PAGE FOR MORE.
The purpose of a sound immigration policy should be to bar individuals that are going to be a burden on the taxpayers.
That was the idea of the medical exams of immigrants at Ellis Island as well as policies that require the immigrants have sponsors who pledge to support them should they be unable to do so themselves.
This new policy just doesn’t seem to help at all.
When you get a chance, check out this thread as well:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374646/posts
The UN and activists were pushing for this.
Good, now we’ll have more HIV in America. Why is that desirable? I haven’t the slightest idea, but Zero waved his hands while somesuch about global leadership dropped out of his mouth.
and America takes another one in the........
Just in time to give them all health care on our dime!
Things may look grim folks, but don’t despair: even as we speak, Commmander Zero has thousands of impoverished, dying, foreign lepers headed our way.
South Korea won’t take them but obama will. Let them live with him, then.
Where are the U.S. Marshals to remove this MARXIST MUSLIM AMERICA-HATING FAGGOT ILLEGAL ALIEN???????????????
WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON???
The fag prez protects his own... both muzzies and gays.
LLS
I am certain Zer0 is a sociopath bent on destroying America.
Absolutely! The Marxist in the WH was known to many of us to be a huge danger (along with all his psycho cronies) before last year’s election. Unfortunately enough jerks voted for him to assuage their guilt/feed their desire for a black pres. that we are stuck with this horror.
Inviting more AIDS into the country is just another nail in the country’s coffin. How lovely that even MORE ill persons will be coming our way, to be treated on OUR dime.
It just gets worse and worse, doesn’t it?
He’s gotta boogie with those who brung him to the dance.
another brilliant move by our masters in government
I imagine barry is going to stand at the border and LAY HANDS on each new illegal..curing them of all their ills.
Aren't people with HIV more susceptible to getting other diseases, including communicable diseases?
I am sorry this happened, but there are millions of sob stories out there, and each one cost taxpayers potentially millions of dollars.
Importing HIV patients to be treated at taxpayer expense is suicidal.
As someone said, the first disease with civil rights.
This is about deliberately overloading the system.
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