Why is it so?

(as Professor Julius Sumner Miller would say) 

If you cross the *North Korean* border illegally, you get 12 years hard labour.

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 a political prison to rot.

*However, if you cross the AUSTRALIAN border illegally, you get a job, a driver's' licence, a social security card, welfare benefits, food stamps, credit cards, subsidized rent or a loan to buy a new house, free education, free health care, a lobbyist in Canberra and, in many instances, you can VOTE.*