Yet that is not enough for the activists who poured millions of dollars into Mr. Clintons campaign. Incredibly. the President is now in the process of throwing open this Nations doors to AIDSinfected immigrants from around the world. Who can blame those Americans who feel that this President. after breaking promise after promise. has made clear that about the only citizens who need show up to collect their campaign IOUs are the radicals in the organized homosexual movement. The public health agenda of America has been torn apart by an AIDS lobby which promotes special rights rather than public safety. Everyday some Senator gets on this floor and cries that we are in an AIDS emergency. that AIDS is everywhere. and that this disease will bankrupt our hospitals. If we are in the middle of such a national health emergency. why would anyone want to throw open the floodgates to immigrants who will overwhelm a health system that supposedly is on the verge of collapsing? This is the kind of thing that I discussed back in 1987 when I offered the first legislation to close the doors on unregulated immigration. I have in hand the Congressional Quarterly Almanac. which says. "In 1987 Senator JESSE HELMS persuaded Congress to take the unusual step of adding the AIDS virus--by lawto a list of dangerous contagious diseases that were grounds for exclusion from the United States." Then the article quotes me as saying. "Other countries are trying to stop the import of the AIDS virus. They do not want it to come into their country. and neither should we." But. "with barely a murmur of dissent. the Senate adopted his amendment 96 to 0 and the House accepted the provision as part of a 1987 supplemental appropriations bill.
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Immigrants with AIDS will overwhelm the health system.