Mr. Speaker. the United States denies permanent immigration status to individuals with communicable diseases of public health significance. Examples of this include syphilis. leprosy. and infectious tuberculosis. Recently. as a body. 356 Members voted to extend this Immigration ban to HIVinfected individuals. The President signed legislation codifying this ban on HIVinfected immigration. Recently. a Federal judge effectively ruled that we have no jurisdiction over who enters our borders and ordered that the HIV/AIDSinfected Haitians in Guantanamo Bay. Cuba. be released from there and taken to the United States. This ruling is another attempt to give a disease civil rights protection at the expense of the American taxpayer.
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