Mr. Speaker. this is one issue that if it were opened up to a national referendum. we would see widespread support for maintaining the current immigration policy. However. I oppose a national referendum because I am a Representative in a republican form of government. in which we are supposed to come here and have access from the Library of Congress to a world body of knowledge and debate among our colleagues. and where we are supposed to make some tough calls. But again. if we did have a national referendum. this is one of those cases where the American citizenry would overwhelmingly not act as a mob or out of emotion. which is what a representative government is supposed to prevent. but they would act with overwhelming common sense. And in a referendum of all 50 States and territories. the results would probably come in somewhere in the 80percent range not to change our immigration policy with regard to communicable diseases. I was flying into China in 1988 with one of my sons to ride the TransSiberian Railroad. at my own expense. taxpayers. and I picked up the visa application and it said if you have tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus. dont get off the airplane. You will be held and turned around at the airport. China is not the best example to use because it is a cruel Communist dictatorship.
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