text: why do so many people immigrate to the us? almost every single  time i hear a foreign person comment on the us they have nothing nice to say, so why do so many people from other countries want to come to the us? good question.....the other answers all have a point.....our economy rocks, we are free(ish), and, despite what the liberals will say, you can make it here if you work hard and have a little luck.....not too many other places like that.    it is paradoxical, of course, that people in other countries rarely have anything nice to say but they flock here like starving seagulls.....sometimes i think we should just lock down the borders, end immigration, bite the bullet and say "seeya" to the rest of the world.....of course, as soon as we said we were doing that, france, german, russia, china, and the rest of the us-hating world would say "no no no please don't go, we're sorry we were such jerks!!!"