The Nation - News from April 7, 1989
A Dutch citizen with AIDS spent his fifth day in a Minnesota jail as U.S. immigration authorities remained undecided whether to waive a law and let him attend an AIDS health conference in San Francisco that ends Saturday. An immigration official in St. Paul, Minn., said that he had recommended Hans Paul Verhoef’s release but that a higher-up in Washington would not complete his review of the decision until today. Verhoef, a 31-year-old resident of Delft in the Netherlands, was arrested by the Immigration and Naturalization Service Sunday night under a 1987 law barring AIDS patients from entering the United States.
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