> If the US is such an awful country why do so many clamor to immigrate here? This implies the choice to migrate to the US is rational and well researched, wei

> If the US is such an awful country why do so many clamor to immigrate here? This implies the choice to migrate to the US is rational and well researched, weighted against other nice places like Luxemburg, Sweden, Switzerland. In practice, it's just the largest Western country, so gets you the most blanket quantity of Western opportunity per unit of migration hassle.