Postscript

I will give Tom Brokaw of NBC credit. Last night, after running a story on Jose Gutierrez, a young man who was one of the first Americans to die in the war who at age 14 left his native Guatamala hopped on a train and made his way (illegally) into California, who was later adopted and became a legal immigrant, who was only 22, who dreamed of being an architect, but decided he "wanted to give something back" to this country before going on to school, Tom Brokaw told viewers to think about this young man the next time they rail about illegal immigrants crashing our borders.

I hope the let his sister and her husband come and settle if they want.

How do you put a value on someone's life? The same as a visa? Do we set up funds for soldiers' families like we did for the families of 9/11? Do we pay for each Iraqi killed? What about the Jordanian students who were just trying to get out of the country and get home? In a global society, these questions get asked. I don't have answers. But I want to know how it will play out.