Via email today, I received this synopsis:

* * Let me see if I understand all this…
>
> .        If you cross the North Korean border illegally you get 12 years
> hard labor.
>
> .        If you cross the Iranian border illegally, you are detained
> indefinitely.
>
> .        If you cross the afghan border illegally, you 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 get:
>
>    - A job
>    - A drivers 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
>    - And in many instances you can vote

      Personally, I think that immigration reform should begin with all illegals going home and getting in line, just as my great-grandparents did. And a note to Nancy Pelosi, a large percentage of those here illegally are here with their allegiance to their homeland, where 90% of their earnings are sent. They are not here for our healthcare….. they are simply providing for their family back home.

       Healthcare reform is necessary, but not a government takeover, and Immigration reform is necessary, but not woth amnesty programs.