Why is it that so many people are so in love with America, anyway? I guess I was too, when I was a teenager, which I can attribute to the prevalence of American pop-culture (how many Western countries show more native movies than American movies? France, maybe, and..?). What do people expect would happen if they moved to the US, from another first world country? That their life is magically going to be better, freer, etc? I have never been, so I don't know, but it seems that that doesn't stop many people who hasn't been there either from assuming that life there would be fantastic.
For that matter, how would the NSA spying interfere with this romantized life? I'd if you were unaware of it to begin it, most likely not at all (not that that is an excuse for the spying).