Those two statements are not necessarily correlated. The worse your neighbour countries are, the more eager people are to immigrate to any nearby country that i

Those two statements are not necessarily correlated. The worse your neighbour countries are, the more eager people are to immigrate to any nearby country that is less bad. The US is definitely more desirable than Mexico. But that doesn’t prove that the US is more decidable than other non-developing countries. I was offered a green card and 6 digit salary to move to the US. I chose to move to Australia instead. That was a great move.