Still fewer than three thousand, so far.
But three thousand with a relatively high income level, therefore taxes would be onerous and perceived as unfair by those upon whom it is accessed.
Years ago, there were many who fled the United States, but that was to avoid serving in the military to fight a war they thought unjust. Or they were just chicken.
And of course, there is flight all the time to avoid prosecution. Citizenship may or may not be a determining factor.
Just for comparison, we naturalize about 680,000 citizens a year.
For right now, its relatively few people. And it’ll probably stay that way for awhile. The problem is that within the next 20 years or so, that trickle will become a torrent. And the strange thing is it won’t be because of abysmal US policies so much as other countries that will be looking to increase their populations.
There is a birth dearth going on in most of the western world. At a certain point, a lot of those countries are going to need to import people to keep their economies afloat. So. Let’s say that you’re country X. Your population is aging. Your birth rate is in the toilet. Your choices are to import unskilled adherents of the religion of peace, commit demographic suicide, or import well educated Americans and Canadians. Maybe some of those Full Quiver families who think having 20 kids is really cool.
What would you do? Bring in people from the US? Offer them a tax deal and a gun permit? Or do you bring in the hordes from goatherdistan? Or disappear because your population is dying of old age? Its a pretty simple choice. And as economies outside the US start doing better, you can expect to see a lot more countries competing for the citizens they want.