Open Letter to President Obama

 

Open Letter to President Obama

            Hi. My name is James Meader and I am a highly decorated Vietnam combat veteran. I’ve never been convicted of any crime greater than a speeding ticket. I am generally a law abiding citizen. I have been known to ignore some intrusive and unwarranted laws such as those that don’t allow me to give oral pleasure to my wife. I have, however, never been caught doing it. Yet I am being punished with almost unendurable hardship for a crime I have not committed.

            That crime is allowing my wife to stay in the states after the government has denied my application for her to get permanent residence. My wife is Belizean and big brother in the state department won’t let her stay with me while we await the decision of my I-130 application for permanent residence as my wife, and the mother of my son. We have been apart and waiting almost eight months with no end in sight. My son can’t even visit me as he is still breast feeding, at least he is now a passport holding citizen of the US. Big brother’s reason for not allowing her to stay with me is that she MIGHT not go back. So I’m being punished for a crime I could commit rather than one I have committed.

            So much for the rights, freedoms, and ideals that I risked my life for in Vietnam; I should have gone to Canada.

           

No one is correct 100% of the time, not even me; but then I could be wrong.