Trump has a famous line whining about America only getting immigrants from the "shithole countries". Wonder why, dude.

This was a MASSIVE eye opening shock to me. You watch NCIS or any pro military show and they'll pan to Baghdad or anything middle east and you'll see crumbling buildings or warzone with a sepia filter. I was got smacked when I saw a real skyline photo of Baghdad, and istanbul, and most cities. Our media is dead set on continuing the thought of these empty deserts

There is a book called Factfulness where they talk about presenting the UN scientists their own data and surprising them at the standard of living in many third world countries. People's ideas of third world countries is based on what they were like in the 50s, but many are catching up to the developed world in leaps and bounds.

Everyone i've known who wanted to go to the US was interested in making easy money by scamming people. That's the type who admire the US.

I'm not sure where you're from, but at least in the Middle East that's not the case. It's a very desirable immigration destination here (less than Western Europe, though).

The UN General Assembly Human Rights Council 2018 report on USA's poverty and human rights is a pretty quick and clear overview which makes it clear that parts of the USA are just undeveloped:

http://undocs.org/A/HRC/38/33/ADD.1

"5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty"

"69. In Alabama and West Virginia, a high proportion of the population is not served by public sewerage and water supply services"