What does not make a lot of sense. Mr. President. is for us to go out of this Chamber and believe that by passing the Nickles amendment we have really done something about HIV infection when we know that threequarters of the immigrants that come here legally are already in the United States at the time they apply for immigration. Out of 700.000 immigrant visas issued each year. hundreds of thousands are for people who are already here. Many of those have contracted HIV while they have been here in the United States. We say to them. when they come to claim their visas that they are going to be deported. What are they going to do? What they are going to do is go underground without treatment or education and risk the public health of the American people. Second. we have all of those who come here on visitors visas. If you believe that HIV is a health risk. then they endanger the public health of the American people every bit as much as immigrants. The 300.000 to 400.000 that comes here illegally endanger the public health. too. What we are saying is let us have a program which the Public Health Service believes can be the most effective in protecting the American people.
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