I got this in a recent email:

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 you get:
A job
A drivers license
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
Your own television channels, also in your language
Telephone answering systems as well as ATM machines in your language
The right to carry your country’s flag while you protest that you don’t get
enough respect