Reuters is reporting illegal aliens in America are more at risk for AIDS infection than if they were in their country of origin. A rational person would read that and say, “Well, stay home then” or “Don’t be an illegal alien.” That’s what I thought, and I think I am pretty rational.

So step one in preventing AIDS infection as an illegal alien: Don’t be an illegal alien.

There is another aspect of this trend though. Not all illegal aliens are getting infected with AIDS. You don’t get it automatically when you sneak across the border. You have to “engage in high-risk behavior.” The article explains:

“They are in a new environment, they are discriminated against, they are living in harsh conditions, sometimes just in boxes covered in plastic near the farms where they work,” said George Lemp of the California HIV/AIDS Research Program at the University of California, who studied 458 Mexicans before and after they left their homeland.

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The men in the study were three times more likely to have sex with a prostitute in California than they were before leaving Mexico, Lemp’s research showed. They were five times more likely to have sex while using drugs or drinking and 13 times more likely to have sex with another man.

There are a few things we can rule out as the cause of this trend. As far as science has learned, you do not get AIDS from:

• Living “in a new environment”
• Being “discriminated against”

or

• “living in harsh conditions”

Now that that is out of the way, I have another solution. If you make the choice to break into this country, you don’t already have AIDS, and you want to avoid infection, avoid the following:

• “sex with a prostitute in California” (pretty much anywhere, really)
• “sex while using drugs or drinking”
• “sex with another man” (unless you are a woman, and it’s your husband or exclusive partner, and/or it’s protected sex)

One more thing from the article that we need to cover.

Steffanie Strathdee, a professor at the University of California, San Diego, found that residents of the border city Tijuana who injected drugs and had been deported from the United States were four times as likely to be infected with the AIDS virus as drug users who had not been deported.

We have covered that crossing the border does not give you AIDS, so we can rule it out. That leaves injecting drugs into your body. Try to not do that if you want to avoid getting AIDS.

In review, to avoid AIDS, don’t:

• Put your penis in anything if you don’t know where it has been.
• Allow a penis to be put in you if you don’t know where it has been.

This is also known as monogamy. It’s not as bad as you might think. Try it. You might like it, even if you are an illegal alien.

The three final steps are, don’t:

• Put your penis in anything while you are using recreational drugs.
• Put your penis in another man’s hind end.
• Use recreational drugs.

Making light of a serious situation? No, pointing out that this “situation” has nothing to do with being an illegal alien, and everything to do with the choices an individual makes and in living a risky lifestyle.

Stop enabling the behavior by attributing it to something it isn’t.