WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is lifting the United States’ travel ban for those who are HIV-positive.
Obama said Friday that the order will be finalized on Monday, completing a process begun during the Bush administration. The U.S. has been one of only about a dozen countries that bar entry to travelers based on their HIV status. The ban has been in place for over 20 years.
The announcement came during Obama’s signing of an extension of the Ryan White HIV/AIDS bill.
At a small ceremony at the White House, Obama signed legislation that authorizes the program created in 1990 to continue. The government’s Ryan White program provides medical care, medication and support services to about a half a million people, most low-income.
Excellent
This is great, just in time for the new health care bill. We can bring in millions of aids patients to go with the 15 million illegal aliens and spend our money even more foolish.
Oh, and yes paying for the illegals is in the bill. It says they wont, but there is no method written down in the bill for any approval or method to check their legal staus.
So they will simply ignore it when they come to the door and let them in for us to pay.
The average bill for someone with H1N1 after a month in intensive care is 1.5 million. Saw two on the news last week. So lets crowd more illegals or aids folks together to spread H1N1 etc.
Happy Obama day.