The "Dreams" of good people count!"
By Michael Patrick Murphy,
Founder United Philippine American Project
My overriding objective is to be with my partner for the rest of my life, come what may. I realize, as I talk to hundreds of immigrants to the United States and Canada, that my dream is shared by millions of other good people around the planet who want to better their lives, go wherever they please, and do no harm.
Currently, after a devastating response to world wide pandemics, people are feeling the force of government control over their lives like never before. Governed by fear and punishment, people are becoming more and more violently divided along the lines of right and left, which sadly plays right into the reasoning for more and more government controls over our lives. Narcissism is replacing the peaceful desire to serve our fellow man, which has traditionally been a strong part of many cultures—but less so in native born Americans.
To be better and stronger, we Americans must learn to live and work alongside those cheerful durable people that know the dramatic differences between here and there. Though this is true of many immigrant populations from a smorgasbord of countries, my focus is on Anna Liza coming to America and on improving the Philippine American relationship. As Ronald Reagan, my favorite American president once said, make the borders a turn style where you check in, stay as long as you please, obey the laws, and get no free lunch. Leave as freely as you came.
After a horrible period of isolationist thinking, America now has earned its shortage of people that are willing and able to work. Far too many jobs are vacant. It seems that any warm body will do. This is despite increases in the minimum wage and many bonus funds from government. Service is poor as ever while maintaining inventories has become almost impossible.
Illogically, in this time of great need, immigration and migrations are blocked by those already settled and not uprooted. They are too often unsympathetic to the forces that violently uproot whole generations of people throughout the globe. Where would some of us be if we couldn't move from California to Texas, or from Texas to Costa Rica? What about your own family's past? How strict was immigration then?
Such uprooting requires deep thought on the part of immigrants to navigate the world's arbitrary and unjust bureacracies. There's no room for shallow from the hip prejudicial thinking, that's all too common today.
It's to that end that I've dedicated this site to my "trapped overseas" partner, Anna Liza. Im dedicating most of this year to figuring out how to avoid all the rocks and pitfalls to overturn my embarrassing US State Department's decision to not allow Anna Liza to come here, even just to meet my family as a tourist. Even with a beautiful work history, her hard work, faith, and love, are not being rewarded with a visa. This is even more contrasting when I see so many native born Americans destroying, littering, and loudly focusing on human abuse. Look at your homeless populations. Who do they consist of? Immigrants?
This bias against honest hard work and in favor of entitlements and free lunches occurs without immigrant participation. Millions of people each year—people that would otherwise be a tremendously hard working and honest asset to America, are rejected by a cruel, unsympathetic, bureaucratic, inefficient, dishonest and arbitrary US State Department.
Join me in building this bridge to improve America, and her relations with her former territory, the Philippines. We really do owe them that.
Together, I believe we can make a difference in our world.
Thanks for your visit to our website. Do contribute and keep in touch.
Sincerely,
Michael Patrick Murphy
Founder
I'm in the center with just a small part of my Philippine family. Anna Liza is on my left. :-)