I was just now reading the Denver Post report about the State Department’s visit to Denver to hear the complaints there about the Refugee Resettlement program and it reminded me of a comment by a presenter at the 30th Anniversary “celebration” of the Refugee Act of 1980 I attended last Tuesday.
Do you remember me telling you that there is no longer a bar to immigrants entering the US who have HIV Aids? Obama lifted the ban. I mentioned the issue here.
Well, I’m sure it was panelist Mark Hetfield, VP at the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society who remarked that although he was all in favor of the ban being lifted, he said it was too bad in some ways because now the refugee agencies don’t get any heads-up about which refugees have AIDS and thus can’t start them on treatment. Oh great!