Having experienced it firsthand, from a wealthy nation, let me be the first to say that our system -- which is *applicant funded* -- is hot, hot garbage.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1107346076804145157 …
...and we did the "easy" version: one American citizen, skilled, with jobs, etc. etc. It's structurally bad because congresspersons who claim to support legal immigration don't.
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And we had a comparison point: moving me to the UK was (on a temporary basis) a relative breeze, and staying would not have been onerous. The other way? Bureaucracy run amok.
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I understand May has made things much worse going to the UK, but it's still not even in the same league as our broken, capricious, inhumane system. Institutionalized cruelty is the norm for US immigration, it's only a question which version you get.
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