Nobody is floating rafts through shark infested waters to get into anyplace else in the world. Period.
No, put people are sneaking through death-trap train tunnels to make it to the UK. The US is not special in this regard.
To the guy who said payback time for America is coming.. I say great.. From the billions of dollars and tens of thousands of lives we've given in aid to other countries.. Payback time is long overdue.
The U.S. gives less per capita in foreign aid than any other developed nation. Japan gives more foreign aid than we do, and they have half the population base.