No not really. Maybe in Ellis Island days.

Most born Americans certainly have no fainest clue how hard it is to legally immigrate to the USA already.

Actually it is incredibly easy. But keyword is not "productivity", it is "family".

Who knew.. that the racist plan to ensure the population stays white actually had the reverse effect.. 2024 and nothing's still being done about it because That's racist doh!

Family reunification with your uncle is impossible. You literally just proved my point.

You can't do it with an uncle and that does not make it hard. It is in fact incredibly easy.

For someone who has no immediate family in the USA (i.e. most people of the world) the reunification venue is closed. I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here.

But for someone who has, the door is wide wide wide open.

Yes and if you have 10 million dollars you have options for wealth immigration, the door is wide wide open. Do you think that makes immigration to the USA incredibly easy?

wealth immigration is the productivity path not family path

OK, so it being easy for a subset of people doesn't mean it's "easy" in general.

there's a lot of businesses simply built around hacking the US immigration system.

the people most likely to immigrate aren't the smartest but the people with the most money who can pay to hack the system

There really isn't much "hacking" going on, it's mostly fraud. Fictional marriages, fake jobs and so on. I was talking about legal ways.

It’s a patchwork. The latest policy to allow undocumented immigrant children to stay is from 2012 and still in effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_...