Not If I Still Hunger (Explicit) is a first-person political testimony that examines hunger not as metaphor, but as a mechanism of power operating at the intersection of human trafficking, labor exploitation, and institutional delay. Written from the lived experience of an immigrant survivor, Samuel Martínez Roque argues that deprivation of food, safety, stability, and recognition is routinely weaponized to discipline vulnerable populations into silence and compliance. Through a sustained critique of waiting, “process,” and forced forgiveness, this episode exposes how bureaucratic language launder violence by recasting harm as procedure and survival as patience. Central to the narrative is Ramon Ontiveros, named not as an anomaly but as an enactment of a broader structural logic in which wage withholding, forced starvation, and retaliation function as tools of control in the context of human trafficking and labor exploitation. Martínez Roque rejects regret and closure as moral obligations imposed on the harmed while conditions of exploitation remain ongoing. Instead, hunger is reframed as historical memory and political refusal, an embodied indictment of systems that demand endurance without repair. By foregrounding voice, certainty, and non-consent, this episode challenges legal and social frameworks that require victims to neutralize their own testimony in order to be believed, arguing that enforced silence is not civility but a continuation of violence by other means.

Killed in USA, Part 2 (Explicit) rips the veil off the machinery of American power, revealing a system that thrives on human suffering. Bureaucracy does not just fail, it weaponizes survival, turning it into evidence against the living while absolving itself of responsibility. Through detailed accounts of coerced labor, withheld wages, threats, and systemic indifference, this episode exposes how the State and its institutions profit politically, socially, and morally from death, fear, and exploitation. Survival becomes a liability; injustice is rewarded; and the mechanisms of American governance operate like a scandalous enterprise, protecting themselves while ensuring the vulnerable remain invisible. Far from abstract, this is a brutal indictment of a nation where the administration of death is as clean, calculable, and profitable as filling out a form.

Killed in USA (Explicit) reveals the shocking truth the State of Texas doesn’t want you to see. Immigrants are starved, threatened, and forced to endure years of coercion and wage theft, yet their suffering is dismissed because it doesn’t fit bureaucratic checkboxes. In America, even twenty-four consecutive days of documented starvation, coerced labor, and death threats are ignored if the victim survives, because only a corpse can satisfy the state’s definition of a “substantial threat of personal injury or death.” Samuel Martínez Roque exposes how government indifference, legal loopholes, and clerical cruelty protect perpetrators while punishing the living. This is human trafficking and labor exploitation hidden in plain sight, a systemic failure that turns survival into a liability and makes justice nearly impossible. The evidence is clear, the harm undeniable, but the system refuses to act proving that in the United States paperwork can be deadlier than a gun.

The Price of an Immigrant’s Life in America exposes a constitutional fracture hiding in plain sight. For nearly four years, he endured labor trafficking, forced starvation, wage theft, retaliation, and death threats, only to be abandoned by the very institutions that promise protection. After surviving 24 days without food, swallowing expired medication and household chemicals to make the pain of hunger go away while Ramon Ontiveros weaponized his hunger as a tool of control, Samuel Martínez Roque reported his abuse to every agency available. Instead of safety, the institutions meant to protect him stayed silent. A brutal, unfiltered letter to the U.S. Supreme Court that is more than a testimony of violence; it is an indictment of institutional indifference. It confronts the moral contradiction of a nation that demands trust from victims while offering only paperwork, closed cases, and inaction. At its peak, Martínez Roque asks the Justices of the Supreme Court, and the country, a question no human being should ever have to ask: what is an immigrant’s life worth in America?

The United States of Hunger is a searing political essay that exposes the contradiction at the heart of the American project: a nation that praises freedom while punishing truth, and that celebrates justice while weaponizing hunger against the vulnerable. Through personal testimony and rigorous political reflection, Samuel Martínez Roque examines how systems built to protect citizens become tools of coercion for immigrants, where reporting abuse results in retaliation, where police defend threats as “protected speech,” and where bureaucracy functions as a modern form of cruelty. This essay exposes hunger as a political instrument, silence as a survival strategy, and truth as an act of rebellion. With unflinching clarity, Martínez Roque reveals how deprivation becomes policy, how the border becomes a stomach that digests the poor, and how liberty becomes a privilege reserved for those whose lives the system values. A philosophical, legal, and deeply human indictment of the American myth, The United States of Hunger asks the question the nation fears most: What kind of freedom is it when your survival depends not on how much English you speak, but on how much truth you can swallow just to be allowed to eat?

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Episode 2: The United States of Hunger (also referred as "The United States of Hunger: A Paradox of American Liberty"), to be released on December 16, 2025, and all accompanying artwork, were written, developed, produced, published, and distributed by Samuel Martínez Roque as part of the series Samuel Martínez Roque vs. The United States of America.

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Ramon Ontiveros’ Conspiracy to Defraud the United States is not an anomaly, it is a lesson learned from a system built to look away. This essay examines how Ontiveros’ actions reveal deeper failures within the U.S. immigration and labor structures: a culture that rewards coercion, punishes vulnerability, and turns immigrant fear into an economic resource. Rather than treating the immigration system as “broken,” this work asks a more urgent question: what if the system is functioning exactly as designed? What if its inefficiencies, contradictions, and abuses are not errors, but features? Through political reflection, philosophical analysis, and firsthand insight into coercion, retaliation, and institutional silence, this essay confronts the uncomfortable possibility that exploitation in America is not an accident, it is an expectation.

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Episode 1: Ramon Ontiveros’ Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (also referred as "Ramon Ontiveros’ Conspiracy to Defraud the U.S. Immigration System: A Political Indictment of American Hypocrisy"), released on December 2, 2025, and all accompanying artwork, were written, developed, produced, published, and distributed by Samuel Martínez Roque as part of the series Samuel Martínez Roque vs. The United States of America.

© ℗ 2025 Samuel Martínez Roque. All rights reserved. All content on this publication, including but not limited to text, graphics, images, audio, video, and other creative works, is the intellectual property of Samuel Martínez Roque unless otherwise stated. Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, modification, public display, or transmission of any content from this site, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the prior written consent of the author. Limited use of brief excerpts is permitted for non-commercial purposes only, provided that proper attribution is given and a direct link to the original content is included. It is illegal to copy this work, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.