So my post got taken down.

In it I was saying that many many other groups have come into this country LEGALLY as opposed to illegally.

These groups have managed to make it despite facing, in many cases, far more opppressive socioeconomic circumstances. I'm talking about the Jews, the Italians, the Japanese, the Chinese, and so forth.

Yet, somehow, we're supposed to look the other way when the Mexicans come into this country illegally...? We're supposed to conveniently ignore that they are breaking the laws of this country that the people's representatives have enacted? We're supposed to somehow think this is a special case, that they, and not the others, have to follow the rules?

Minute Maid seems to indirectly endorse this notion.

You maligned the sentiment:

"Why should I give THEM some of MY hard-earned money"

I think the sentiment that hits the nail more on the head is:

Why should I let the Minute Maids decide that the entire country is going to give lawbreakers economic support, after the entire country had ALREADY decided that illegal aliens are illegal?

Think globally, act locally, you say. OK, I am. I am bringing it down to a very local level. I am bringing it down to YOU.

You are deciding not to follow the rules the people have enacted, by subtly endorsing the illegal entry of aliens across the borders. You are deciding, through your actions, to make moral pronouncements about who should come into this country, and you are very willing to have others pick up the tab, and yet NOT WILLING to put your money where your mouth is by taking illegal aliens into your home. You are saying, "I don't care what laws the people have enacted, we are going to abet the illegal entry of aliens, and you, the people, are going to pay for it. I have spoken."

Note carefully: I have no problem with the poor and oppressed coming into this country. Our country has been built in large measure by the oppressed and impoverished. I am merely saying that it is not OK for the oppressed and impoverished to come into this country by breaking the laws that this country's people have enacted.

Sure it would be great if the whole world were one nation without physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual borders. But the reality, today, is that we're are made up of nations, and there are indeed borders and laws. Please abide by them.

I wonder if this post will make the cut, or if it, too, will get deleted?