A little later a young man came to my window, he wanted to go to the US to study art. I could tell that he loved his art and would work very hard. It made me sad to have turned away a person who would've worked hard and done good things in the US especially after having given visas to kids who would just waste their time. No, most immigrants think everyone in the US lives like the Americans they see on TV in big houses with lots of consumer goods. But the immigrants who go to the US usually are hard workers and even though their life is hard, their children's lives are easier.
People lie and say that they want to go as a tourist or student.
People pretend to be qualified for a job for which they aren't. People pretend that they are going to get married to a certain person in the US but don't. People from Haiti and some other Caribbean islands sometimes build rafts and try to float to America on the Gulf Stream. Criminal organizations sometimes smuggle entire shiploads of people into the US for money. There are lots of ways and The INS and the State Department do our best, but people still get in.