Obama Ends U.S. Travel Ban On Visitors, Immigrants With HIV-AIDS - Political Punch
Can someone please help me to understand why the President thinks it is a good idea to make it easier for infected people to enter our country? They are very likely to infect others - and increase our health care costs and human misery in our country. Good lord, you can't even donate blood if you have recently traveled to many countries with high HIV/AIDS rates. This is another example of being more concerned about world opinion than what is in the best interests of our citizens. I just don't get how this helps us. Isn't he supposed to be protecting us? This is brain dead. These infected people already could get into the this country if they jumped through hoops and it was safe. Why just open the door?
<<Starting Monday, foreigners with HIV-AIDS will be able to travel or immigrate to the United States without having to get a waiver from the Department of Homeland Security.
Today President Obama eliminated a travel ban that had been in place since 1993, forbidding people with HIV-AIDS from travelling to the US. “If we want to be the global leader in combating HIV/AIDS, we need to act like it,” the President said today.>>
This is frickin' bizarro world. The article talks about gay disease and all that rot. African countries have awful rates, primarily spread by heterosexual contact. This steams me - people will die because of a stupid political decision. This is not about gay rights. This is about .. what? What is the point of making it easier for our citizens to get a horrible disease? We have led the world in helping Africa fight this blight. We have nothing to be ashamed of in how we have been a good neighbor, world wide, on the fight against AIDS. Why make it easier for our citizens to be infected?
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