> That is bad for the political leadership because they just don't want to issue visas

America welcomes the most people in by percentage and by numbers in the world. If they don't want to issue visas, and they do it the most by political design, then no one does.

The US has the lowest percentage of it's population being immigrants in the Western Anglosphere. Like it's beaten by all of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland. Germany and France too, plus a while host of smaller European countries.

There's an argument that the US is the least immigrant friendly large Western nation. Maybe the medium sized ones too.

Citation needed