Seventyseven percent according to that poll favor mandatory premarital testing. So much for the first part of the amendment. The second part would simply amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make infection with the human immunodeficiency virus a ground for exclusion from entry into the United States. In other words. if people come to our borders to immigrate. to become American citizens they have to take a test. If they have AIDS. they do not come. It is fair enough in terms of protecting the lives of the American people. because currently the immigration law already lists 33 grounds for barring aliens from the United States. and on that list are certain physical and mental impairments. For example. if the immigrant hasand I quote from the statute-"a dangerous contagious disease." he or she cannot come in. That is already the law. So what is the big deal about saying that we cannot add infection with the AIDS virus to that list?
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