Attractive Nuisance

October 16, 2013

President Barack H. Obama

The Whitehouse

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, DC  20500

Dear Mr. President:

Your failure to secure our national borders has created a deadly “attractive nuisance”.  Innocent people have been lured by our lack of border security into attempts to navigate arduous and dangerous terrain, or by associating with human smugglers, in their pursuit for a safer and more prosperous life.  How many of these immigrants and family members have succumbed to the harsh conditions they encountered trying to illegally cross our border.  And how many have perished because they put their faith and their money in the hands of brutal and ruthless criminals.  You have created this tragedy through your dereliction of duty to your oath of office.

Let’s also consider that most of these illegal immigrants are decent, hardworking, and honest people doing what they must to survive.  But our porous borders have also attracted the worst elements of humankind who came to our country to exploit our wealth, our compassion, and our vulnerability to acts of terrorism.

You would prosecute me to fullest extent of the law if a child drowned in my unattended swimming pool that did not have a protective fence.

If, as you claim, compassion is more important to you than party politics, then you must make every effort to immediately secure our borders.  Otherwise, you should be prosecuted to fullest extent of the law as an accomplice to negligent manslaughter as a consequence of willfully maintaining an “attractive nuisance”.

Respectfully,

Bill Monroe