My step-son has been in line for several years to obtain his green card. The way things are going, however, I should have advised him to go to Mexico and swim across the Rio Grande to the U.S.

Greeting him must be President Barack Obama, holding out a citizenship card, a passport, free health insurance, a Social Security check, a plane ticket to Baltimore and, if he's lucky, a bottle of Gatorade.

I'm all in favor of immigration: legal immigration. If it were not for the process of legal immigration, I wouldn't be here to write this letter, and I wouldn't be married to a naturalized U.S. citizen from Shanghai. But whatever happened to the rule of law? That's what I want to know.

Henry H. Emurian, Baltimore