PUBLIC SUBMISSION | As of: February 16, 2009 Tracking No. 80361b5f Comments Due: December 06, 2007 |
Docket: USCBP-2007-0084
Issuance of a Visa and Authorization for Temporary Admission into the United States for Certain Nonimmigrant Aliens Afflicted with HIV Infection
Comment On: USCBP-2007-0084-0001
Issuance of a Visa and Authorization for Temporary Admission Into the United States for Certain Nonimmigrant Aliens Infected With HIV
Document: USCBP-2007-0084-0004
Comment Submitted by Leo N. Egashira
These regulations are unnecessary and outrageously discriminatory. They do not
protect the U.S. public from a disease that already exists in millions of fellow
citizens.
It is ironic and hypocritical that I, as an HIV-positive U.S. citizen, can travel to
Canada and the European Union, but that an HIV-positive Canadian or European
traveling to the U.S. can be denied entry. While the most odious provisions are
unenforced (according to news reports), the fact that they can be selectively
enforced--and have been--bespeaks an illogical, capricious and ideologically-
based regulation that has no basis in medicine and law.