Rev. Torli H. Krua
Pro Se Plaintiff, Krua v. Mayorkas – Tel-+1-857-249-9983
Not Mere Fairness in Visa Issuance But Birthright Citizenship for All Persons Born in Liberia! (Article 1 1824 Constitution of Liberia approved in Washington City)
Hon. Jack Reed, Senator, and Congressman Gabe Amo of Rhode Island
To Save the Union from Collapse by Confronting and Mitigating the Ongoing Harm of the First Nationality Act of 1790 and the Unconstitutional Colonization of U.S. Citizens in Liberia
August 21, 2025
To the Honorable Members of the United States Congress:
There is a well-known saying: “United we stand, divided we fall.” Tragically, it describes today’s reality of the world’s only superpower—the dangerously divided United States of America.
Deep racial divisions, collapsing trust in institutions, and growing instability now threaten not only the survival of America but also the stability of democracy worldwide. This crisis is magnified by U.S. alliances with the wealthiest nations—former colonizers who have never confessed, repented, or returned the wealth they stole across the globe through slavery and colonization.
But these divisions did not begin with President Trump or in our lifetime. They trace back to the first betrayal of American democracy—the denial of liberty and citizenship to Black Americans. This denial came despite the undeniable truth that Black people were present in America before the birth of the nation, that a Black man was the first to die in the Revolutionary War for America’s independence, and that Massachusetts set the precedent of freedom and equality in its 1780 Constitution.
The good news is that this collapse is preventable. Just as enslavers once hijacked democracy through exclusionary laws, today Congress can restore it. We call on Senator Jack Reed and Congressman Gabe Amo to lead by introducing the Free Liberia “Healing & National Unity” legislation in 2025 to correct 235 years of injustice.
Massachusetts: The Lost Precedent of Democracy
The Declaration of Independence in 1776 declared, “All men are created equal.” Massachusetts turned those words into reality. Its 1780 Constitution, the first ratified by the Massachusetts people themselves, proclaimed:
“All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights…”
One year later, in Brom and Bett v. Ashley (1781), Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett), an illiterate and enslaved Black woman, successfully sued for her freedom under this constitution. The court granted her liberty and awarded monetary damages—an early form of reparations, though unknown to most Americans today, even members of Congress.
By 1783, in Quock Walker v. Jennison, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court confirmed slavery was unconstitutional. Thus, Massachusetts abolished slavery by judicial review—five years before the U.S. Constitution of 1788.
America already had a working model of liberty, justice, and equality. But the framers in Philadelphia chose compromise with slavery: embedding the Three-Fifths Clause, the Fugitive Slave Clause, and protections for the slave trade. Massachusetts demonstrated democracy’s promise; the U.S. Constitution entrenched racial inequality.
The 1790 Naturalization Act: Democracy Betrayed
The first federal nationality law restricted citizenship to “free white persons.” This was America’s original apartheid law, codifying white supremacy as national policy. It stripped Native and Black Americans—already recognized as citizens in states like Massachusetts—of federal citizenship.
This 1790 Act became the foundation for centuries of racial exclusion and directly inspired oppressive regimes around the world—from Jim Crow laws in America to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 in Nazi Germany and Apartheid in South Africa (1948). Both World War I and World War II were waged in the name of justice, yet America remained shackled by racism while France and Britain were drowning the world in brutal colonization—crimes, including the unconstitutional colonization of U.S. citizens in Liberia that remain unacknowledged and unmitigated even in 2025.
The 1819 Slave Trade Act: Federal Colonization of U.S. Citizens In Liberia
In 1819, under enslaver President James Monroe, Congress passed the Slave Trade Act. It:
- Appropriated federal taxes,
- Authorized the S. Navy,
- Created the United States Agency for Liberated Africans, a federal agency under Monroe’s appointees.
Through this agency, officials falsely labeled free-born Black American citizens as “freed African slaves” and deported them to Africa. The first U.S. colonization expedition (1820–1821) was escorted by U.S. warships.
The American Colonization Society (ACS), often blamed for colonization, was not even legally incorporated until years later (1831, 1837). Both incorporations were declared null and void by Congress in 1844. The ACS was little more than a propaganda arm for a corrupt project directed by federal law, executive authority, and military power.
In fact, Attorney General William Wirt, in Opinion #229 (1820), warned that colonizing U.S. citizens under this law was unconstitutional. His warning was ignored.
Thus, it was the U.S. government itself—not a private society—that orchestrated the unconstitutional colonization of U.S. citizens, including Massachusetts citizens with recognized birthright citizenship.
The Truth and the Present Crisis
The historical truth is clear: under the guise of philanthropy, the U.S. government stripped its own citizens of their rights, exiled them by force, and created Liberia as a U.S. colony. More than 60% of emigrants died in this colonial experiment.
This act of ethnic cleansing by design inflicted generational harm that continues today. Millions of Liberians—descendants of U.S. citizens—remain disenfranchised, excluded from birthright citizenship, and trapped in cycles of instability rooted in this unlawful history.
Meanwhile, the divisions born from the 1790 Naturalization Act still haunt America: racial inequality, disenfranchisement, systemic injustice, and eroding faith in democracy.
What Congress Must Do
Congress has the constitutional authority and moral responsibility to correct this betrayal. We call on you to:
- Formally acknowledge that the U.S. Government—not merely the ACS—colonized U.S. citizens in Liberia using federal law, taxation, and naval power.
- Repudiate the 1790 Naturalization Act as unconstitutional and contrary to America’s founding ideals.
- Recognize all persons born in Liberia as birthright U.S. citizens, since Liberia was established under U.S. jurisdiction and law.
- Provide reparative measures: refund immigration fees, compensate for harm, restore full citizenship rights, and offer repatriation.
- Affirm the Massachusetts precedent of 1780–1783—democracy, justice, and equality for all—as the foundation of a united and sustainable America.
Conclusion
America is divided because it abandoned its own best precedent. Massachusetts showed the world that freedom and equality were possible, and Elizabeth Freeman proved it in a court of law. Instead of embracing that truth, Congress chose exclusion and colonization.
If America is to survive, Congress must choose justice over denial and equality over supremacy. History is watching. The world is watching. God Almighty is watching!
The question is simple: Will Congress heal the nation by correcting the original sin of colonization—or allow the Union to collapse under the weight of its own injustice?
The Free Liberia Movement calls on Senator Jack Reed and Congressman Gabe Amo to take the lead and introduce legislation in 2025 to heal and unite the dangerously divided United States of America—beginning with Liberia as the 51st state. Please make this announcement in Monrovia City or Marshall City or West Point or Bushrod Island.
With hope and resolve,
Rev Torli H. Krua
Rev. Torli H. Krua
Pro Se Plaintiff, Krua v. Mayorkas – Tel-+1-857-249-9983
Founder, Universal Human Rights International (UHRI)
Founder, Free Liberia Movement