Too good to be true, as usual

Urban Legends blows away the recent mass email Rico sent out about the issue of illegals getting Social Security:

As petitions go, this one is likely doomed to failure. Why? Because it's an email petition, a glorified chain letter with no guarantee of reaching, let alone convincing, the elected officials to whom it's addressed. Even if copies do somehow make their way to Washington, there's no way for the "signatures" to be authenticated. Most, in fact, are redundant. On every one of the several dozen copies I've received, each from a different sender, the first 200 or so names are identical. Why would anyone in a position of power take such a document seriously?
If you want to make your opinions known, and especially if you want them to count, it's much more effective to send personal messages directly to the parties concerned, whether they be your Congressional representatives, heads of government agencies, or the President himself.
At least one variant of this petition is prefaced with the bogus claim that Latino immigrants are set to demand that all public facilities in the US be staffed by people who speak Spanish. I could find no evidence whatsoever to corroborate this claim, nor is it clear what connection it could possibly have to immigrants' eligibility for social services.

Rico says he will now have to resend his email, apologizing for his gullibility...