[davidw]

> I don't see why America gets special status with the animosity people feel towards immigration.

Because it sucks and treats people badly.

My wife, and mother of my dual-citizen children is Italian: I get to stay in Italy, end of story.

To have her go to the US (where I'm from) is, by comparison, a huge, expensive bunch of work even if we've been married for nearly 10 years and have children together.

If your bureaucracy manages to be worse, and slower than Italy's - which it is, in the US - you're doing something wrong.