An Open Letter to People in Central America Who Want to Be Americans

 

First off, I do understand why you want to come here. I also worry about you. You are crossing into trouble and I want to help you. The people who are encouraging you to come to America illegally; the people who want to throw open the BACK door for you are not your friends. They have a use for you and have a long long history of racism, exploitation and even promotion of slavery. 

The majority of Central Americans fleeing to America come with firm beliefs. They tend to be 

 

(1) Pro-choice, 

(2) Pro-Family, 

(3) Pro-Christian, 

(4) Pro-free market capitalism, 

(5) Mostly one of two genders.

Is this any way to enter a new homeland.

In other words, you guys are Conservatives. You're our peeps. Hey, I've been recruiting hard to bring you over to join the folks who have long been anti-slavery, free market capitalists. America is the land of opportunity. I welcome you to the United States and would like to apologize for how Democrats have exploited you, shoved your families into colonias (basically tar paper slave labor camps without running water, sewer or electricity), and pay you next to nothing to pluck chickens, milk cows, build houses, buildings and roads and dig ditches. 

 

I just wish our leftist politicians had let us create a more humane way for our friends from Latin America to become American citizens. If we could improve opportunities for you to enter legally, you could have been better protected you from coyotes, drug cartels and the perils of crossing deserts, rivers and mountains. You don't have to do that. We do have bridges and border crossings believe it or not. We should have English language schools in every consulate in Central America and citizenship classes, screening processes to weed out drug mules, terrorists and gang members, and a guest worker program leading to citizenship.

You should not have to risk death in
the desert to get here.

Please note that there are those in powerful positions in our government take money from powerful corporations and corrupt business. They do not wish you to have this opportunity but to keep you working at virtual slave wages. They will resist efforts to provide you a safe and legal means of becoming Americans. It is to their advantage to keep you poor and downtrodden and is in their interests to pretend to care about you and your children, to lie to you and to help you vote illegally for them so they might remain in power.

The truth is America has plenty of room. Many of you are Americans in your hearts practically from birth. You will make good citizens and taxpayers and you will make our country rise as have generations of legal immigrants. Generations of immigrants have fled oppressive countries and made their way to the land of the free. Each wave of immigrants has made us stronger. Sadly, this latest wave is being forced to enter via the back door, illegally making them vulnerable to manipulation and abuse. For them to do this you must be denied opportunity, freedom and even a place in the culture.

Many of us are working on a solution to this problem. 

 

It's already started.

Please be patient with us. We are working
against powerful forces both here and in Central America to prevent you from rising in the world. Conservatives believe the economy is not a zero sum game and that there is plenty of room for hard-working people to succeed.

Pray for us. We are fighting truly evil forces. God be with you all. I pray that we find a way to at once protect our nation AND bring you safely home to America.

Tom King