This is exactly the reason I do not live in the US. Not only the VISA renewal is a big hurdle, sometimes totally randomly they deny you application. Adding the unconstitunal practices at the border where I need to reveal private content and trade secrets to the border control people and you are making sure that many of us are going to work or doing PHD somewhere else. For bonus points, it is not possible to save your details in the gov database so you need to re-enter all the 10 pages of information by hand every time you apply for a VISA. That is right, you need to keep re-entering the same information over and over, again and again.
