Yeah, American Roma are able to integrate fully, but she's from an Italian Roma community that left Hungary in the 20's. She's from it. Like, born and raised in this community. She's in this country cause her brother brought her here a couple years ago, and I met her cause her brother and I worked together. And yeah, while alot of Roma are hard working, normal people, the loveable rogue or honorable gyspy view of the Roma are romanticized views that are total bunk. The injuries that my parter and i got inflicted on us made us realize that alot of them are just a semi-organized criminal subculture, in a similar way to the Basques in Spain and France, Irish (my people) in the US, and the Bahai in Iran.
There's a reason Roma don't integrate well anywhere outside of the US, because every single nation including to a slightly lesser extent Britain (with the gypsies) treats Roma as subhuman scum, sure the European Union may enshrine their rights in EU law, but that's a lot different to actually forcing member states to treat them as normal human beings.
Even in England which is one of the more tolerent countries when it comes to gypsies (and other minorites), I have seen demos marching down the streets of respectable towns basically demanding gypsies be expelled, in the last five years - Bournemouth springs to mind, where even the local paper published by a large national company, essentially called for them to be denied the right to live in the town...
A Roma homeland is an awsome idea, however it would basically be like Israel only with no superpower to protect it.
Interestingly I once saw a website about Travellers (my people on my da's side, and equally hated) which said we were related to the Romani, which is nonsense though there has been cooperation, trade, and intermarriage for many years, due to our similar lifestyles.