Africa-Press – Liberia. Liberians have petitioned the United States Embassy near Monrovia to grant a US Visa waiver to all Liberians as it is done to other countries across the globe.
Heading the group, Rev. Troll Krua said the US Visa waiver will enable Liberians to access education, employment, and business opportunities without visa restrictions.
Rev. Kris is the Founder of Universal Human Rights.
According to Krua, the title of their petition is the Honorable Ben Swan’s Petition For Healing and Uniting The United States and Rev. Mahn C. Krua Sr.’s Petition For Economic Emancipation Of Liberia From American Colonization.
The goal, he says, will mitigate the ongoing harm of racism, American Colonization and slavery through public confession, repentance, restitution, reparations and payments of damages.
This includes all Liberians in the USA as beneficiaries of the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act, he said.
“Grant US Visa waiver to all Liberians to access education, employment and business opportunities without visa restrictions. Declassify Racist US State Department Cable of 1990 discriminating against Liberian applicants provide reasonable accommodation, shelter, and privacy for Visa applicants in Monrovia,” he said.
According to Krua, Article 1 of the 1824 Constitution of Liberia written by slavemasters and high-ranking American leaders retained privileges for Liberians.
“All persons born within the limits of the territory held by the American Colonization Society in Liberia, in Africa, or moving there to reside, shall be free and entitled to all the privileges, as are enjoyed by the citizens of the United States,” Rev. Krua said.
He added that citizens of 516 sovereign Native American nations within the United States are fully entitled to all privileges enjoyed by citizens of the United States of America, and citizens of 40 countries, including Japan with a population of 125 million people enjoy US visa waiver.
Also, citizens from 57 countries enjoy temporary work visas which help them generate revenues for their families, citizens from five (5) territories controlled by America also enjoy access to quality education, employment, and business in the United States without visa restrictions.
Rev. Krua further stressed: “Ten Presidents of Liberia were African American citizens, and currently in 2023 nearly all the top Liberian politicians from both the ruling and opposition parties as well as independent Liberian politicians are American citizens and or American persons with permanent residency (Green Cards), while the US Embassy in Monrovia denies over 70% of visa for ordinary Liberians whose votes empower Liberian politicians with salaries and benefits higher than public servants.”
Rev. Krua also stressed the issue of privacy for visa applicants. He said the Privacy Act of 1974 aims to balance the government’s need to collect and maintain information about individuals with the rights of individuals to be protected against unwarranted invasions of their privacy stemming from federal agencies’ collection, maintenance, use, and disclosure of personal information about them.
He added: “The conduct of interviews for visa applicants at the US Embassy, Monrovia, Liberia is carried out without any protection of the privacy of visa applicants, thus leading to the violation of privacy and harm to many visa applicants. The specific area of violation of the Privacy Act by the US Embassy includes the policy objective to “restrict disclosure of personally identifiable records maintained by agencies.”
Rev. Krua continues: “The privacy of visa applicants is compromised when the US Embassy conducts interviews in a setting where the Embassy brings total strangers into a crowded room and asks questions of applicants in which both the questions asked by the interviewers and the answers given by applicants are heard by everyone in the crowded room without regards to the protection of the privacy of the interviewees.”
While Liberian refugees have been denied protection for many years, America protects pets and wild animals through federal law, Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act (PACT), a bipartisan initiative that bans intentional serious harm to “living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians.”
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