What is it that you want? Food, shelter, liberty? What is it that you are lacking at this time?
Health care, reversal of environmental degradation, infrastructure and environmental maintenance, education of children, reduction in the prison population, reduction in racially focused violence and injustice, lower burden of debt, protection from fraud and theft, access to capital, reduction of economic inequality, protection of public resources (fresh water, soil fertility, forested landscape, key organisms and ecological cycles, etc) - - - - and so forth.
Competent governance, in short. That would include protection from the rich and powerful.
All of these affect my food, shelter, and liberty, btw. Which is needless to say - of course you knew that, right? You aren't a fucking moron yourself, after all.
People are still willing to swim with sharks to get here
People will swim with sharks to get to Bangladesh (from which others flee to India etc), to Kenya, to Burma (from which others are fleeing to Bangladesh), to Malaysia, to Indonesia, to Australia, to Thailand, to Spain, to Greece, to Armenia, to Germany, to Syria not long ago (fleeing from the US, in part, they were), to Canada, to China.
The question is what they flee. And in the US case, what they flee is very often the consequences of bad US governmental policy in their home towns - over the decades we've seen refugees from the death squads in Guatemala, the death squads in Haiti, the narco-terrorism in Mexico and Colombia, the despotism installed by the US in Chile and Peru, and so forth. Even the Cuban situation was shaped primarily by US policy.
Coming to the US to escape the US government and its allies - there is some credit there, in that possibility. But not bragging rights.
I take no pleasure in suggesting that government assistance might come to an end in the future, but I'm not ready to blame the wealthy should that happen
Ok, maybe you are a fucking moron.