The Hon. Mr. Lindsey Graham,
US Senator, South Carolina (R),
The Hon. Mr. Charles Shumer,
US Senator, New York (D)
United States Senate,
Capitol Hill, Washington, DC
C/o Mr. Matt Rimkunas
Re: The "Four Pillar" Comprehensive Reform Plan
Mr. Graham and Mr. Schumer,
It is good to know in plenty time of your new Congressional initiative plans to provide a path of legalization to millions of foreign nationals residing within the United States without official permission from proper federal authorities, i.e., illegal aliens (* not a pejorative name, but rather a respectable, official, federal government term that rightly identifies status of such folks’, that is aliens, who are not US citizens, i.e., individuals, permanently residing in the USA)
The illegal alien populations within our borders, and even infringing upon the legacies, heritages of the Constitutionally Mandated Civil Rights benefits of Black US Citizens, i.e. the Emancipated Slaves, are of many ethno-racial nationalities from around the earth posing as legitimate immigrants or migrants within the borders of our nation.
It is to be noted, however, for sake of honest discussion and planning, without any animus nor spite, due to the close proximity of their native countries and the horrific sufferings they experienced there, the overwhelming preponderance of illegal aliens are of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity, primarily of Mexican nationality.
Once again, Americans will passionately argue the impact of these illegal aliens upon US Society, but this time, especially as it relates to Blacks. Therefore, we fully expect you to allow and my colleagues and I to have an integral role in the planning and development of any comprehensive immigration reform plan.
Fortunately, gentlemen, your announced “four pillar” comprehensive immigration reform plan-bill-to-law is in the early stages allowing concerned American citizens like us the opportunity to have some input the plan.
Apparently, the four basic pillars of the plan are:
• the creation of biometric Social Security cards to ensure illegal workers cannot get jobs in
the future;
• fulfilling and strengthening border security and interior enforcement;
• creating a process for admitting temporary workers;
• and implementing a tough but fair path to legalization for those already here.
Considering The Fate and Destiny of Blacks In The Plan
While we certainly applaud the intent of the first three pillars, it is the fourth one that gives us serious cause for alarm, especially as it relates to America’s unfinished business of ensuring the Black US citizens i.e., the Emancipated Slave Class, their Constitutionally mandated Civil Rights according to the 14th Amendment and Civil Rights Act of 1866.
Whatever, “path to legalization” is proposed, no comprehensive plan can be legislated and implemented without deeply consideration the fate and destiny that it’s impact will have on Blacks.
Of course, allowing foreigners to continue to enter our country, unabated, without proper protocols is devastating enough upon all US citizens, however, all indications reveal that any comprehensive immigration reform that does not consider the fate of Blacks will not only devastate, but totally ethno-racially cleanse the Emancipated Slaves completely out of American society. Surely, such is not your intention!
Such a catastrophe would finish what certain racist, American White people of 19th and 20th Centuries began by their legislation and litigation against the nation’s Black Emancipated Slaves.
A Congressional Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act neglecting the fate of Blacks essential amounts to modern day or 21st Century Jim Crow-Black Codes, which will doom the very people upon whose back this New Nation is built that the illegal aliens are seeking a better lifestyle, to a destiny of irrelevance.
History teaches that when a people are or is perceived as irrelevant, inconsequential, a liability, even a threat, they become extremely vulnerable to widespread social, political-governmental, economic and religious oppression. Surely this is not what you want for the Black Emancipated Slaves.
The “Conscious of Congress”
It is alarming, shocking and hurtful to discover that the African American leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) the “Conscious of Congress” has not yet brought to your sensibilities the need for open, honest, dialogue around the complexities of this matter of “comprehensive immigration reform”, especially as it relates to American Black US citizens.
Record will show that since the Spring of 2005, I have repeatedly invited the Hispanic/Latino leaderships to the Dr. King, Jr. Civil Rights “Table of Brotherhood” to discuss this issue primarily effecting these two peoples, especially given the growing heated tensions between them.
“Why Should Giants Talk With Midgets?” plus “The Race-Card”
Unfortunately, those who advocate policies and practices that are contrary to US Constitutional law, greeted us with knowingly canard accusations of being racist against foreign national “immigrants-migrants”, particularly * Mexicans and/or responding with the attitude and quip of “Why should giants talk with midgets” alluding to their now powerfully overwhelming, but illegitimate populations (Hispanic/Latino 46% and growing, to Blacks 11% and declining in Los Angeles alone)
• Somehow Hispanic/Latino and Mexican illegal aliens and their presumed citizenship children have morphed into a “Brown” race, making them the nation’s major racial minority, thereby entitling them to any and all Civil Rights benefits that were derived out of the struggle of the Black Emancipated Slaves and more…therefore, how can we be racist against them?
• Wouldn’t the opposite rather be true, that they are the racist against Blacks, especially the fact being that the US federal government does not identify Latino/Hispanic – Mexican as race, but rather primarily a Caucasian – White composite of many ethnicities, including some as African-American and/or Black and Asian.
• Therefore, playing the proverbial “Race Card” against Blacks as a weapon in support of unlawful immigration, amnesties and pathways, etc. is literally a misnomer, oxymoron and abuse of the struggle of a legitimate racial minority who indeed have suffered generational damaging slavery and racist legislation. What illegal alien in the United States has experienced such atrocious governmental treatment?
Nevertheless, such racist disrespect and treatment by the European, White-Caucasian based Hispanic/Latino leadership towards American Black US citizens is witnessed in the glaring sight, deafening silence or even outright encouragement by apparently intimidated and/or frightened African American leaders on Capital Hill, as well as civil rights organizations, churches, etc.
In fact, many have gone so far as to declare so-called “Brown-Black” coalitions throughout America in a presumed mutual struggle against the proverbial, oppressive “White man” and his institutionalized racist United States government. Such coalition building constructed solely on the perceived skin color or race is the highest, most shameful form of racism that there is.
Nevertheless, it is our intent to once again seek to encourage the CBC and other African American representatives to place these legitimate concerns before you by sending them a copy of this letter as well.
The Government Sanctioned Ethno-Racial Cleansing of Blacks
From every aspect of our society Blacks are being pushed-cleansed from their rightful opportunities of gainful employment and business proprietorship, housing, healthcare, education, government (elective, appointed and law enforcement), and have become more prone to violent attacks and murder perpetrated by Hispanic/Latino gangsters, which is a direct result of massive illegitimate numbers of foreigners and “presumed citizens”
Isn’t it difficult and stressful enough already for Blacks in the United States especially with the judicial systems etc, without them having to deal with the massive presence of illegal aliens and “presumed citizens” absorbing the entitlements due to the Emancipated Slave US citizens.
In fact, according to many studies, the Emancipated Slave class leads all other ethno-racial groups in nearly every negative social statistic in the nation except teenage suicide.
There is no justification for elected officials to rebel against their Oath of Office of protecting the US Constitution and enforce its’ mandated Civil Rights Act of 1866 for Emancipated Slaves from the ravages of “foreign and/or domestic foes.”
“Foes” being anyone who or thing that impedes the progress of Emancipated Slaves on their “pathway” to full US citizenship, which is exactly what any comprehensive immigration reform plan absent concerns for the fate and destiny of American Black citizens, would do.
The United States’ Unfinished Business With The Emancipated Slaves
Constitutionally, the Emancipated Slave Classes should not to have to also deal with a circumstance that will make our continuing struggle for full “equal justice under the law” US citizenship “…as is enjoyed by White citizens” more complex, but rather result in the complete demise of Blacks as people, and subsequently, the New Nation itself.
While there is much advocacy for immigrant compassion, where is such passionate concerns for those upon whose “backs” this very country was constructed?
Blacks suffer continued injustices in the United States because the work that was begun over 140 years ago which Abraham Lincoln called “…the unfinished work” and “…the great task remaining before us…” for “a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal” wishes of the Founding Fathers, is yet to be completed.
Remember, this New Nation was sorely-sorely chastised by GOD via the Civil War for the way it had hypocritically boasted itself of Freedom and Justice while subjugating another people to chattel slavery.
Therefore, according to the Divine Providential record of the GOD identified in the Declaration of Independence, any comprehensive immigration reform plan etc., that excludes a just, healing, repairing and completion of “the business”, fate and destiny of the Emancipated Slaves will doom America to another, perhaps this time, fatal round of Civil unrest between “We the People” of the United States.
Essentially, the fate of the nation literally hinges upon how this 111th Congress and 44th President treat illegal aliens as opposed to the Emancipated Slave citizens of America.. This is a test, to see whether this nation will finally this time live up to its Creed and Congressional Promissory Note to all American citizens by how you gentlemen devise and present your comprehensive immigration reform plan.
Remember, it was the cause of Black people held as chattel slave property that led to the near fatal Civil War between Americans that Abraham Lincoln proclaimed at Getteyburg in November of 1863, “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure”
Once again, our beloved “nation under GOD” is “testing” its foundational core as it decides the fate and destiny of the Emancipated Slaves by comprehensive immigration reform. How can the New Nation “long endure” if it continues to ignore the plight of the Emancipated Slaves.
Amnesty For Illegal Aliens or Reparations To The Emancipated Slaves US Citizens
If we as a nation are compassionately providing the misfortunate illegal aliens citizenship opportunities other than that which is already prescribed by US Federal Law for legitimate immigrants adherence, then what about Reparations for the historical crimes committed by “We the People of the United States” against West African Americanized Blacks such as; chattel slavery; racist anti-Black legislation; and failed institutionalizing social welfare? And now, Congressional policies and Acts that gives “equal justice under the law” to White – Caucasian Hispanic/Latino and other ethno-racial illegal aliens, while continuing to subtly deny the same to American Black US Emancipated slave citizens? How can this be?
Remember, Blacks are the direct descendants of West Africans exiled out of Africa into American slavery via the British Empire, yet strangely, but faithfully fought on the side of the United States in every war that this nation has had to fight from 1776 to 2010, whereas, illegal aliens, as such, have not.
In fact, the United Mexican States, nor any other Hispanic/Latino cultured nation has ever allied with the US in geo-political conflict, but has rather sided with our antagonist.
Unlike those of Blacks, Illegal aliens ancestry into the United States was not in chains and shackles; nor did they suffer the horrifying “middle-passage” journey from West Africa to America in hulls of foul, filthy, wooden slave ships; nor do they know the generational damaging experience of slavery in the United States followed by the indignity of racist legislation; nor do they know the fright of being overwhelmed by massive numbers of foreigners breaking into the only country they know demanding that which is theirs exclusively.
Instead, since 1965, all that aliens had to do was to sneak across the southern borders of the United States and thereby perhaps suffer some deserved hardship for their illegal activities. Remember, apart from the mysterious Will of GOD, Blacks did and do not deserve their hardships.
It is yet to be realized just what the extent of the severe, generational damage that slavery and Jim Crow-ism is having and will have on the fate and destinies of Black peoples. In fact, Blacks have been in some form of deadly oppression in America ranging from slavery, to racist legislation, to immigration (legal and illegal) etc, since the reign of the English Crown in America through the birth of the 1776 birth of the United States to the present time.
Living In The Shadow of Generational Oppression
Exiled out of Africa West Africans were held in chattel slavery under the jurisdiction of the British government of King George III for 146 years from circa 1630 to 1776.
Immediately following the British ownership, the slaves were under the Jurisdiction of the newly formed United States for 89 years, ranging from 1776 until 1865 after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation by Republican President, Abraham Lincoln. Therefore, between the British Empire and the United States, the combined years of actually enslavement of Blacks was 235.
For 99 years, from 1865 until 1964, the Democratic, former Confederate States of the South, including their counties and townships-cities, etc, along with those of the border – Mason/Dixon Line, suppressed the Emancipated Slaves with Black Codes or Anti-Black legislation, Jim Crow-ism enforced by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party.
NOTE: It is the primary purpose of the KKK to impede the progress of the Black Emancipated Slaves from ever reaching their Constitutionally mandated, full “equal justice under law” US citizenship “as is enjoyed by White citizens” i.e. Immigrants.
Therefore, factually Blacks, who are being further devastated by the unlawful encroachment upon our soil by foreign nationals, have been under overt suppression in the country for a total of 334 years from circa 1630 to 1964, not counting the last 46 of failed governmental social programs – 1964 to 2010.
In other words, Black people are still living the “awe & shock” shadow of slavery as well as being removed from the oppression of anti-Black laws by a mere 46 years of the 334.
Any comprehensive immigration reform that excludes concerns for the fate and destiny of Blacks and impedes their progress to US citizenship in preference for foreign nationals who continually rebel against our laws, is practicing the legacy of the White Supremacist KKK.
Where is the compassion for the innocence of the exiled West African Americanized Emancipated Slave and incomplete citizen who did not willingly come here as did all other immigrants (legal or illegal).
Whatever pains or struggles unauthorized foreign citizen suffer in our nation, it must be remembered in our planning for them, i.e., “comprehensive immigration reform”, that they willing came to the United States, in fact illegally.
However, Blacks did not choose to come legally or illegally as such, therefore to whom constitutionally does the government owe a greater responsibility.
Mr. Schumer and Mr. Graham, please include these concerns and sentiments for fate and destinies of Blacks in any plan that is devised as a comprehensive immigration reform – “path to legalization”.
Perhaps, the fifth pillar to the plan aught to be the assurance that any path to legalization to those living in international crime does not prevent the progress of the US jurisdiction, Black Emancipated Slaves from achieving their completed citizenship first and foremost.
What About Legitimate Immigrants?
Finally, perhaps, the sixth pillar must be immigration reform to foreign nationals in the United States and abroad who are going through the long and complicated Constitutionally required process of naturalization be considered as well, even before those who are leaping in front of them.
Speaking of “immigrants”, essentially the all the planners at the table of comprehensive immigration reform are of either first generational or of immigrant stock (legal or illegal), it is imperative that the Emancipated Slaves, i.e. the unwilling immigrants have their input as the two groups plan their comprehensive immigration reform bill.
Example: What does a legitimate immigrate and an illegal alien have in common as it relates to coming into the United States? They are both IMMIGRANTS.
What does a West Africanized Emancipated Slave have in common with the immigrant as it relates to coming to the United States? NOTHING! That is why the concerns of the non-immigrants must be heeded by the immigrants.
The immigrants came to the US willingly, where as the unwilling immigrants came as slaves in chains and shackles.
We are eagerly looking forward to participating with you in the comprehensive immigration reform discussions. You may reach me at 424-222-6010 or e-mail Ted@TedHayes.US
Also, please visit http://TedHayes.US/Friend_The_True_Appeal.htm
Please hear our entreaties and may GOD show us the Way. Thank you for your time, consideration and cooperation.
Thank you for your time, consideration and cooperation.
Ted Hayes, Jr.
New America Civil Rights Activist
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