There are plenty of people that complain vociferously about all of the illegal immigration that America so has, of which, their complaints about such illegal and illicit immigration ranges from being legitimate to just plain “sour grapes” as well as racism. The fact of the matter is that in today’s America, the two main types of immigration that we predominately receive, involve either legitimate immigration in which the persons so applying have gone through the legal procedures thereby to come to or to remain in the United States, or involves those that have illegally crossed the border; in addition to all those others that have extended their visas to remain here, without appropriate governmental authorization. There is, though, through the history of the United States, a third form of immigration that should be appropriately acknowledged by this government, of which, the descendants of that third form, would seem to be good candidates to be eligible for special consideration from this, the richest nation that the world has ever known.
The third classification of immigrants to America, involves those that came here that were enslaved peoples, as well as those that came here, that were convicted of crimes in England and subsequently banished here to the States, as well as those that were sent to America as indentured servants. Though each of these cases is different, they do have some commonality, in which, those that ended up in America, were either compelled to do so, by having been sold, or were as a form of punishment sent here, or were basically coerced into indentured servanthood.
It would seem that all those that did not voluntarily come to America, yet, remained in America, through their progeny, deserve to have some sort of consideration by this government, of, for, and by the people in order to help rectify the fact that they were essentially not sovereign individuals when they were forcefully taken to America. Additionally, these people, were for a certainty exploited, for the purpose of essentially profit, as well as being compelled to labor for no compensation, of which, any disobedience by them, could easily have led to their bodily harm, punitive penalties, or even death. Further, these immigrants, unlike most illegal immigrants, had few viable options on their own, to ameliorate their conditions, and most of those options that would be so available to them, were also against the law.
The services so provided by these involuntary immigrants, helped to build this country into a great nation, but such service so provided, has never been fully or appropriately acknowledged by this government, of which, while past misdeeds can never in themselves be corrected, they can, should this government so desire to do so, be ameliorated in the present. This thus signifies that all those that are descendants of involuntary immigrants, are thereby fully deserving of the consideration that a courageous and just government owes to those that have been done wrong. So that, fairly stated, a nation should always be judged, by what it has or has not done for those that have been denied for the longest, what should have been theirs by their birthright, of liberty, justice, and happiness.