FROM MY EMAIL: OK, let me see if I got this right.

If you cross the North Korean border illegally, you will get 12 years hard labor – or shot.

If you cross the Iranian border illegally, you will be detained indefinitely.

If you cross the Afghan border illegally, you will get shot.

If you cross the Saudi Arabian border illegally, you will be jailed.

If you cross the Chinese border illegally, you may never be heard from again.

If you cross the Venezuelan border illegally, you will be branded a spy and your fate will be sealed.

If you cross the Cuban border illegally, you will be thrown into political prison to rot.

If you cross the U.S. border illegally, you will get:

- a job;
- a driver’s license;
- a social security card;
- welfare;
- food stamps;
-credit cards;
- subsidized rent or a loan to buy a house;
- free education;
- free health care;
- a lobbyist in Washington;
- billions of dollars worth of public documents printed in your language; and
- the right to carry your country’s flag while you protest that you don’t get any respect.

I just wanted to make sure I had a firm grasp on the situation....