> Not as far as I can tell. It depends a bit if you have absolute quotas, or thresholds/scoring. > some outlandish things under the rubric of American excepti

> Not as far as I can tell. It depends a bit if you have absolute quotas, or thresholds/scoring. > some outlandish things under the rubric of American exceptionalism, I was unclear, apologies. The idea isn't that nobody goes anywhere else, obviously. The idea, which I have heard many times in the US, is that once someone has decided to immigrate, all else being equal they would obviously choose the US. Clearly most times all else isn't equal; but it also doesn't seem to be true...