I haven't watched the series but everything I know is that if you can remember the name of a character, they probably die within the next few episodes.
Because people want easy answers to their issues and blaming all your problems on some far away, different people or even a local minority that you never actually see is a nice and easy escape route that populists world wide use.
There are reasons why it is illegal for the german state to have a central database of all it's citizens. Guess what the US will do with such a thing when they have it..
I prefer CERN or CC.