Comment by wang_li

> Border agents in America can search your phone or laptop without a warrant or sufficient suspicion at the border.

That is something that can happen at nearly every international border crossing. Before posting I tried to find a list of countries that require a warrant to search your stuff and the only place that came up was Hong Kong. New Zealand requires some suspicion, but that's effectively the same as they can simply state "they were acting suspiciously to my eye."

>Oh, and flock cameras and ICE aren't exactly a sign that America is this beacon of freedom that it likes to portray.

The US never said that you won't be observed in public nor that you can enter, remain, and travel freely around the country forever without permission.