[lmm]

> despite all the anti-US rhetoric, all the political nonsense, we are still the most welcoming place in the world for immigrants, and it isn't even close.

Haha, hardly. I've seen Indians genuinely discussing that if your life plan is to move permanently to the US the best way to do it is to first move to Canada and get citizenship there.

Yes, the US is more welcoming of immigrants than a small, wealthy, tight-knit island with extensive (and expensive) social services, at least on some measures (OTOH one could argue that Iceland not providing healthcare to immigrants shouldn't count against it when the US doesn't provide healthcare to immigrants either). But Iceland is hardly representative of non-US countries in general.