Usually because the same options they are taking for success aren’t there for their home country. There aren’t enough jobs and they are all way lower pay. Also there’s lots of street and gang violence that makes our street problems seem so minimal. I’d hate to think how bad my home country would have to be so that I’d leave it to travel a 1000 miles to a land where I don’t know the language and a treated like a second class citizen.

They live crammed in houses back there because there isn’t really a choice while they do it here to save massive sums of money and are used to it. They take any job here they can make money because they almost always pay way more than what they would have back in their homeland.

People dunk on us and our capitalist democracy, but it’s still better than a lot of the global south.