Dear Global Family,
To Jackson and every TSA agent, DHS employee, and essential worker—those we see and those we may never know—I am sorry you are going through this. You are seen. You matter. And this should never have happened to you.
I am writing to you today because something is happening that we must name clearly. This is not about border security. This is not about protecting the public. This is a crusade—a political and moral crusade—against the very idea that every human being is a human being. And it is being waged by people who are actively destroying the United States for generations to come.
They have weaponized the word "illegal." They have turned it into a label that strips away humanity. Once you are "illegal," in their telling, you are no longer entitled to dignity, due process, or personhood. You become raw material. A problem to be solved. A body to be removed, imprisoned, or destroyed.
This is the oldest trick in the book of cruelty: first dehumanize, then destroy. What is new is the speed, the openness, and the absence of pretense. While this crusade is waged against the vulnerable, the machinery of government is also being turned against anyone who might stop it—including the essential workers who keep the country running.
Step One: The Crusade Has a Human Cost
Jackson Oliverio works for the Transportation Security Administration (TSA). He is one of thousands of federal employees currently working without pay during the government shutdown that began on February 14, 2026.
Yesterday, he worked a twelve-hour shift from 4:00 AM to 4:30 PM. He secured the airport. He kept travelers safe. And he will not be paid for it.
Jackson is not "illegal." He is a federal employee. A TSA officer. An American worker. But in the logic of the crusade, he is still disposable. Because the crusade is not really about immigration. It is about power. It is about who counts as human and who does not.
TSA officers working without pay are being used as leverage in a fight over immigration policy. Meanwhile, ICE agents continue receiving pay after separate funding through 2029 under a different bill. That is not an accident. That is a statement about who matters and who does not.
Step Two: The Label "Illegal" Is a Weapon
The administration and its allies have spent years teaching Americans to see certain human beings as less than human. They use "illegal" not as a legal status but as a moral verdict.
This language is not rhetorical excess. It is the precondition for atrocity. Before you send people to an offshore prison, you convince yourself they are not really people. Before you separate families, you convince yourself they are not really families. Before you force essential workers to labor without pay, you convince yourself they are essential enough to exploit but not essential enough to pay.
The word "illegal" has become a license to detain without trial, imprison without charge, deport without process, and use human beings as leverage without conscience.
Step Three: This Crusade Is Destroying the Country for Generations
When a government decides it can label any group as less than human, it does not stop there. The machinery of dehumanization always expands.
- A Secretary of Defense holding defense stocks while ordering strikes on thousands of targets.
- Domestic troop deployment without governor consent for the first time since 1965.
- A Pentagon refusing testimony and resisting inspectors general and oversight.
- Essential workers forced to labor without pay during shutdown while political salaries continue.
- A president openly declaring intent to ignore unfavorable judicial orders.
- A Guantanamo expansion to hold 30,000 people without charge, lawyer, or trial.
This is not border security. This is the dismantling of democratic guardrails so power can be exercised without accountability. The same apparatus built for those labeled "illegal" can be turned against citizens, journalists, and political opponents.
Step Four: Who Is the Real Threat?
The administration asks the public to fear desperate families, asylum seekers, and people with nothing but the clothes on their backs. But the real threat is the use of human suffering to consolidate power.
The real threat is the dismantling of oversight, ethics rules, and democratic checks so government power can be privatized for enrichment and control. The crusade against the human being is not protecting anyone. It is destroying everyone, including Americans who think they are safe because they are not the target today.
A Call to Our Global Family
- Refuse the label "illegal." No paperwork status erases human dignity or human rights.
- Publicly condemn the use of essential workers as political leverage. Forcing labor without pay is not governance.
- Recognize the global pattern. Dehumanization and disposability are transnational tools of control.
- Prepare for a post-accountability world. Strengthen alliances, diversify supply chains, and reduce dependence on leaders who abandon commitments for political convenience.
- Offer asylum to those targeted. Those facing persecution and detention without due process need safe refuge.
On Moral Grounds
If every human being is created with dignity, then no label can erase that dignity. If leadership treats human beings as disposable, that is not a policy disagreement—it is a moral and spiritual failure.
“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” — Matthew 25:40
What We Are Asking
- Refuse to call any human being "illegal."
- Stand with essential workers. Their sacrifice cannot be normalized.
- Recognize this crusade as a moral war against human dignity.
- Refuse to normalize forced labor without pay as politics-as-usual.
- Prepare and organize to dismantle abusive machinery.
- Protect those who speak out: TSA officers, whistleblowers, inspectors general, and civil servants.
A Closing Word
History will not ask whether we were comfortable. It will ask whether we were present. Whether we saw. Whether we spoke.
We are living through a test of institutions, alliances, and moral coherence. The outcome is not yet determined—but it will be determined by whether enough of us refuse to look away.
I am refusing. I hope you will too.
P.S. — To Those Waging This Crusade
You claim to be protecting the country while destroying it. You claim to care about workers while forcing them to work without pay. You claim law and order while building prisons outside the law. History will name the dehumanization, cruelty, and destruction you leave behind.
A bill or executive order must be introduced to prevent human lives from being used as political pawns. Pay these workers now. They have children to feed and one life to live.
Signed,
Vincent Cordova
A Member of Your Global Family
On behalf of all who refuse to surrender the future without a fight
Future President of the United States
Citations
- TikTok user @jacksonoliverio — testimony regarding twelve-hour TSA shift without pay during government shutdown (March 23, 2026).
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security — documentation of shutdown impact on TSA operations and essential worker designation.
- Transportation Security Administration — internal reports on call-out rates, including 11.76% national rate and 38% rate at BWI airport (March 22, 2026).
- U.S. Congress — legislative records regarding DHS funding lapse and separate $170 billion funding bill through 2029 for ICE.
- The Washington Post / The New York Times / Associated Press — coverage of ICE airport deployment and TSA staffing crisis (March 23, 2026).
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — legal filings regarding Guantanamo migrant detention facility and due process violations.
- The New York Times — “Cubans Sent to U.S. Prison at Guantánamo Are Returned to Cuba” (February 10, 2026).
- Associated Press — reports on dehumanizing language used by administration officials, including references to “peasants” and “poisoning the blood.”