American Patrol Report

As I write this alert, the U.S. Senate is preparing to reauthorize legislation that has had a ticking time bomb secretly added to the bill.

What is it? Its a new section of the bill that would rescind the current ban on allowing visitors into the United States who are infected with the deadly AIDS virus. Let me explain why this presents one of the greatest health hazards to our nation and one which could bankrupt out our health care system.

As you may know, the United States is already spending more than any other country in its efforts to find a cure for AIDS and is spending billions of your tax dollars to provide medicine for AIDS victims in Africa and the Caribbean.

In fact, a program known as PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan For African Relief), has been credited with bringing needed drugs and treatement to millions of AIDS sufferers.

Border Control is not advocating ending that program or other efforts to combat this disease. However, the legislation to reauthorize PEPFAR has been corrupted by the insertion of a clause that would lift the ban against travelers with AIDS wishing to come to the United States. That clause must be removed.

To make matters more critical, the House version of the bll, H.R.5501, has already passed and the Senate version, S.2731, already has 12 cosponsors in the Senate, including Barak Obama (D-IL) John McCain (R-AZ) and Ted Kennedy (D-MA). And the legislation is being pushed by AIDS activists and the gay/lesbian community.

There is no question that such an open door policy would not only put millions of Americans at greater risk of contracting this deadly disease, it would also create a national health care crisis for the nation.

Under a little-known provision of another law, the Ryan White CARE Act, anyone, including visitors and illegal aliens on U.S. soil with HIV/AIDS, is entitled to free health care for life

And, according to a December 2006 White House Fact Sheet

[http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/12/.html], there area already one million people in the U.S. with HIV/AIDS, that have already cost taxpayers "$74 billion on "HIV/AIDS treatment and care."

Right now, there are an estimated thirty-three million people in the world with AIDS. If even a small percentage of those 33.2 million people reach the United States, the cost of their health care would devastate taxpayers and hospitals alike.

While many hard-working Americans avoid medical treatment because of the cost, an illegal alien with AIDS can saunter in to any hospital in America without receiving a bill. Prescription drugs? While prohibitively costly to American taxpayers, they are free to visitors and illegal aliens with AIDS.

So far, this policy, combined with our wide open borders, has had the effect of encouraging tens of thousands of AIDS victims to sneak into our country for treatment.

But can you imagine how many people with AIDS would begin streaming into our country knowing that all their heath care needs would be paid for by just the cost of a plane ticket?

Hundreds of thousands? Millions? And can you imaging how quickly such an invasion would first cripple and then destroy our entire health care infrastructure?

Right now, the only thing that stands in the way of this bill passing in the next few days is one man -- Senator Jim DeMint who has shown extraordinary courage to put a hold on this bill, but he will need our immediate support and encouragement to be able to hold on.

Even though we must fight President Bush, John McCain, Barak Obama, the Washington Post and all the gay rights activists in the nation, this fight to preserve America's ability to keep people out who carry a deadly, contagious disease can and should be won.

Please understand. We are not trying to kill the bill - simply to have Section 305 removed from it.

If the other side is so concerned about helping people with AIDS who live in Africa or the Caribbean, they should agree to remove Section 305. After all, there is no right of foreigners to receive free American medical care and no need for them to come here.

U.S. Border Control is launching an emergency effort to firm up DeMint and his hardy few who are the only reason American is not now being flooded with illegal immigrants carrying a fatal, incurable and contagious disease.

1. Pick up the telephone and dial the Senate switchboard (), asking for Senator Demint.

Tell the person who answers the phone that you wish to thank the Senator for his courage in placing a hold on S.2731, the PEPFAR reauthorization. And let them know that you and thousands of other concerned citizens wil be contacting their Senators today, demanding that they join you in your fight to have Sec. 305, the section that lifts the ban on travelers infected with AIDS, stripped out of the bill.

2. Go to our website, , and click on the to send email letters to your two U.S. Senators.

3. Use the form that lets you invite several of your friends, neighbors, relatives or associates to join you in this effort.

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Thanks for your help on this urgent matter.

Edward I. Nelson
Chairman
U.S. Border Control
8180 Greensboro Drive #1070
McLean, VA 22102