You know my friend you say you are a community leader and it seems you are…of sorts. I just do not understand who you are a self proclaimed leader of. The Latino community it seems but there are some blurred lines and some things that you are forgetting (perhaps conveniently). Although to just about everyone except for you the distinction between legal and illegal is a huge oversight. I understand you have a tradition of not understanding the difference or perhaps a habit of totally disregarding the differences between legal and illegal. Carlos, it IS the elephant in the room! I think perhaps you have displayed many of the same symptoms of habitual criminals. The main one is getting arrested frequently. Granted it is usually for stupid stuff that a person having a normally acceptable level of control and responsibility in their lives wouldn’t get charged with. No driver’s license? No insurance….trespassing?? So why shouldn’t that disregard push to other things after all once you have crossed the line to illegal there is really nothing that is more illegal than another. Running a stop sign is just as illegal as running a federal border. It is just that the penalties paid may be more or less substantial depending on how society looks at the crime. I see that you were arrested recently for trespassing isn’t running a country’s borders just a case of trespassing on a somewhat larger scale? Ideals that we may have been sold on when we were younger as being illegal do not seem to be quite so illegal now once we have actually performed it do they? I can see where you have de-sensitized yourself and justified in your mind the ends justifying the means thing with that little border thing. The trespassing over the border in it self isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Is it Carlos? Until you look at all of the implications. Let us just talk in this segment about where the dollar cost of the illegals in this country is coming from. We can talk about societal changes and system strains in another letter. There are those tax dollars I must give up that I could have used to feed my family or to send my own children to college that the federal government uses to provide a better life for its citizens. Wait that is it! I think I have stumbled onto something! Rarely if ever does any level of government whether it be city, state, county or HOA tax its people specifically and directly for the benefit of those outside of its jurisdiction. So you see this is getting personal. What would your reaction be to someone breaking through the borders of your home because you had something they wanted? People of other countries have no right to take my or your money even by proxy! Yes your money too Carlos because guess what ….you are not one of them. No matter what your ethnic background is! You are and should be on the side of the Legals because you are. You and I realistically have much more in common with each other than we do with the illegals. I, with this document and those statements have redrawn the lines haven’t I? I have redrawn the lines in a much more honest and accurate fashion that you have. See Carlos you and I are on the same side after all. There are 2 differing groups of people here I use the term group with a little hesitance here but let us examine what I actually meant here from several vantage points. On a personal level I have stated some of the facts that lead me to my present condition of thought. From the viewpoint of a nation there are 2 groups of people. One group has a right to goods and services within its borders and another does not. The second group may purchase those goods and services through a negotiated form of payment but not just take them. That has been tried time and time again and usually met with a very strong resistance. On a humanitarian level I give to a couple of aid groups annually that I trust pass on this good will in one form or another to the advantage of the intended recipients. This is something I do, and again, nobody just comes and steals it. There will always be the less fortunate among us and we should all give where we can not when directed.
