Sullivan proposed perfectly sensibly that there be no exclusion on medical grounds for people with AIDS. Many of us agree that it would be reasonable to use the laws ban on people coming to this country who have become public charges with regard to any serious illness that had a high likelihood of leaving people dependant on public support. The exclusion of public charges has been a part of immigration law for a long time and if it is applied in a nondiscriminatory manner. it expresses a reasonable public policy. But to single out AIDS for an exclusion while other illnesses that can reduce people to the status of public charge are not covered perpetuates ignorance and bigotry. Excluding people with the HIV virus from coming to the United States is not only unjustified. it is a throwback to earlier days when we did not have a national policy which understood AIDS well.
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