Karma is when you do something and then endure the results whether good or bad.
Much of the immigration problem today is the result of what we have done over the past few decades.

Tens of thousands of Venezuelans are in or coming to the United States is the direct result of the conditions which we caused by trying to oust their political leaders. We almost overturned the government with sanctions and destroying their economy. Conditions have gotten so bad for the majority of the people they have no choice but to leave the country they love. Perhaps if we turned the policies around, the immigrants would return home. Those policies are the result of both the Republican and the Democrat Presidents and Congresses.

The immigrants from Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador are coming to the country that has interfered in their country for over a century. The countries are overrun with gangs we exported from California and corrupted dictators we sponsored and were bad for their countries. Of course climate change has contributed to the anxiety of living in those countries. Together hundreds of thousands have come to live in a safer place.

Both American political parties are responsible for this mess but don’t expect either one to fix the roots causing the immigration flood. If both parties acted the flood of people would be flowing South towards home. The people you elected know how to solve the problem but they won’t because not enough of us will tell them to fix it.

            They are crossing the border to live here. They might be carrying some disease, we don’t know. We do know they want their descendants to be born in this county.

            We are trying to stop them at the border but we have been unsuccessful. Walls don’t stop them so we are trying to find their homes. Some people have resorted to making their homes uninhabitable. Small groups of people have proclaimed they are poisoning these immigrants.

            So far these people claimed to have killed hundreds but the news stories have only shown three bodies. The people hunting and killing these immigrants wear white and masks hide their faces. They even wear gloves.

            Who are those immigrants and where do they come from? Surprise! They are killer hornets crossing the Canadian border.

            I am a farmer but my land has been hit by two hurricanes which washed away part of my land’s soil and landslides dumped rocky worthless soil and rocks on the rest. My house was destroyed and two of my children were lost.

            Since I couldn’t farm any more I moved the rest of us into the city. Most of my surviving neighbors went too. We tried to find good jobs but unemployment was already high so I could only get an occasional low paying day job. They barely pay the rent on the shack we could afford. We often go without a meal so the kids can have something each day.

            My sons go to school but the way to school is through several gang territories. They are often confronted with the gang members saying join or die. Many of the older kids have run away, hid, or died because they didn’t want to join. Murder and kidnapping are common. The people can’t help the honest cops who are brave enough to try to apprehend the criminals for fear of being the next victims. Judges often let the gang members off because they know gang threats are real.

            The gangs that were exported from Los Angeles to my country have as much control as the corrupt government. They are vicious killers with no regard or compassion for the people.

            What would you do if you were that person? Would you take your family to a safer place or at least send your children to a safer place? This story is what has happened to tens of thousands of Central American families.

            So much fuss is being made over the children coming up from Guatemala and Honduras. People are missing the reason the kids are fleeing their homes. Some families come for economic reasons and climate change but the vast majority is for safety. Those countries are controlled by gangs. Gangs rape, ill, extortion, kidnap, and force the kids they don’t kill to join them. Usually it is join or the family is killed.

            The media doesn’t go back to when and how the gangs got started and took control of those nations. We are the reason! We decided Los Angeles would be better if we exported the members of a growing band of violent Central Americans who preyed on their own people. We sent them south and now thousands of families and unattached kids are coming here to get away from the gangs we exported. That’s Karma!

            We have created this mess and the economic money we are throwing at it ends up going into the gang’s pockets. We criticize the governments for getting tough on the gangs but these governments are in a fight for survival in their countries. We criticize other countries for using violence to put down simple protests but it is necessary when those gangs are armed with guns that our business people sold to them,. It is Karma! Locking them up in gang controlled prisons doesn’t stop them. Let their government’s police and paramilitary do what is necessary. Ignore what they need to do for survival.

            We caused the problem. Let those countries fix it so their people will want to stay in their countries and not flee to the United States.

My “Chance for Sanity Party” is an independent party and will not have a leader in the Congress or Senate. Hopefully this means both parties can step out of their far right and far left philosophies on immigration. Because of America’s past policies and actions and the future effects of climate change, movement of people around the world must be considered an American priority.

When I was young the illegal immigration was mainly men and families crossing the border to work in the agricultural industry during the growing season and then go back to Mexico. In spite of technology, we still need tens of thousands each year to plant our vegetables and fruit in the spring and harvest them later. Alabama passed a very strict law against illegals and vegetables and fruit rotted in the fields. Two years later they quietly rescinded it. We need English speakers in hundreds of thousands of tourist type jobs during the summers, without them business can’t operate. These are usually young Europeans. The U.S. Farms employ hundreds of them each summer. In addition tens of thousands of businesses need people for landscaping and construction.

We need these people for our country to survive. Most would be happy to have a work permit to come up, work, and go back home. Passing the necessary laws that both parties have wanted for years should be easy.

The flood of families and parentless kids from Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica is vastly different because those people are fleeing conditions we are largely responsible for. Our policies over the last 150 years have created an unlivable condition. We have deported our Los Angeles originated gangs to those countries and now they are almost as powerful as the national governments. They terrorize the people by kidnapping, extorting, and murdering the poor and the rich.

We have played one country against the other for years. The NRA has facilitated the gunrunners while we have pushed the governments to buy weapons and to have us train their military and para-militaries in our failed methods used in “pacification” in Viet Nam. Both sides randomly kill the civilians to keep control. We have actively allowed marijuana and cocaine to be moved through them so the Feds can track it.

These policies have made life untenable so they must use the last of their money and risk their life in hopes of a safer, better life. If we can stop their countries’ collapse and start rebuilding their countries, then not only will they stop moving here, they will go back home. We can provide hundreds of thousands of jobs by moving manufacturers from Asia to Latin American. Tax incentives can make that happen. If we support people with the integrity to run their countries, then we can start to end the immigration problem.