>largely because I can see it operating as a black box and leaving no options for review. Here's a fun story from my experience with the US' immigration system

>largely because I can see it operating as a black box and leaving no options for review. Here's a fun story from my experience with the US' immigration system's black box: I'm a citizen of a country that gets ESTA. I have reapplied for that thing a few times as I travel to the US about once a year for conferences. Every time I enter the US, the border agent does a double take at my passport and asks me what my birth-date is. Turns out, in the black box of the US immigration system there's a number switched in my birth date, it's correct in the ESTA paperwork and passport. I may have messed up in my first ESTA application - my country may have transmitted the wrong data when the US requested it for the first time (my country and the US use a different date scheme, it's not MM/DD/YY). Every single time the border agent says they put in a request to fix it (who do I even ask to have this minor thing fixed?), but I know the next border agent will ask again, the requests go nowhere. So keep in mind that every 'minor' thing the US saves about you will be set in stone, even if that minor thing is wrong. I can only see bad things to come the more US immigration collects, they seem to have no direct way to correct false information, even internally.