Letter to Mary Robin, High Commissioner for Human Rights, United Nations, November 29, 1999

To:
Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations
New York, NY 10017

Dear High Commissioner Robinson,

RE: U.N. official questions U.S. border policy

You ask why the U.S. polices the safest border crossings, forcing immigrants to risk their lives in the most dangerous areas. You're saying the U.S., with limited manpower should police the dangerous areas so the immigrants can cross in the safest areas. You answered your own question. What are you doing or will you be doing to get Mexico officials to keep their citizens at home?

Your question implies you may honor the Vatican's policy on U.S. immigration more than you honor the U.S. policy on immigration. The Vatican formally considers the U.S. to be an immoral nation as the U.S. will not permit all persons anywhere in the world who want to migrate to the U.S. to do so. Whose policy do you honor? The Vatican wants more Catholics in the U.S. so it pressures many Catholics in Mexico to migrate to the U.S. More than 65% of persons who migrate annually to the U.S. are Roman Catholic. The Vatican, in its drive to be the religion of the world, bloody and otherwise as needed, is fanatically intent on making its doctrines the laws of our land as in Ireland. PLEASE KNOW WHAT YOUR CATHOLIC LEANINGS ARE AND DO NOT USE YOUR POSITION IN THE U.N. IN ANY WAY TO HELP THE VATICAN ACHIEVE THIS STATUS IN THE U.S..

As I earlier had requested you and Kofi Annan, please do all you can to require the new East Timor government to endorse the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights and incorporate the freedoms in their laws. Its major leaders are priests, all of whom incited the East Timor guerrillas to wage war against Indonesia for more than 25 years. Your commission, chaired by Ireland's ambassador to the U.N.,to investigate war crimes in East Timor also must investigate crimes by the East Timor guerillas.

Jose Alexandre "Xanana" Gusmao, likely president of East Timor, said, "Those who follow the militia we know were stupid, but as Catholics you must forgive them. Everyone has had family die, but you must forgive them, it is the only way we can achieve our independence." Other leaders in East Timor have pledged to get revenge for what the Indonesia military and their followers did to the East Timorese. Support Gusmao.

Respectfully,

James M. O'Hara

PC: Kofi Annan, Secretary-General, U.N.