To Whom It May Concern….

To whom it may concern,

You have scorched our flesh and branded us terrorists but then choose to ignore the slaughter your people have inflicted upon not only us but also your own because it makes sense for military assault rifles to be more legal than a refugee trying to find a safe home

You call us rapists, yet you refuse to acknowledge the fact that our women have the highest rate of rape victims at the hands of your men who are unable to control their “exotic” fantasies and animalistic temptations

How can we steal your jobs when the only jobs we’re given are the ones that you refuse? We work all day on an unrealistic wage too frightened to say anything just in case we’re detained and then spend all night trying to learn a language that can’t even pronounce our names and all because you have created laws that have made human beings illegal

You feel your freedom is somehow threatened by our ability to speak our mother’s tongue which is ironic seeming as it is you who throw our children in cages and slums “This is our country” you say, “you speak English here”

But the sacred breeze of this land had not heard a whisper of English until you came here uninvited and unforgivingly slaughtering half the indigenous population you stayed way too long and way passed your welcome the brutality of your violence still felt in the communities that you forced the native people into

But that’s all in the past right? See you cannot dictate who may or may not come as they please on this land that you stole

We have scaled mountains, ran from gun fire and crossed dangerous seas We have stared death straight in the face and said “I will reach my destination so I dare you to try me” We have every right to seek refuge here

As a first world person you have the prospect to dream but you see us immigrants weren’t able to afford that luxury and even then an immigrant’s dream is not lived by the immigrants themselves but by our children

So to whom it may concern, this is an open letter from an immigrant to let you know that your borders aren’t an imminent threat to us if you want scary just look at where we’re coming from and look at what has happened to us while you build your walls, we’ll build our ladders

To whom it may concern, you cannot keep us out