They probably get a bonus for making it all the way to US.
Maybe the waking up part is the hell. When we were asleep, we didn't know anything different so we learned how to adapt and survive within the status quo. Now that we're waking up, we can change the status quo. Maybe the real hell is the knowing part, knowing what we (collectively) have been doing.
Especially when American taxpayers can't even afford to attend our own universities.