Transit in LAX/Immigration

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But you don't so anything, even electronic, on the way out anymore.
The airlines report it. They always did.
This is correct, it happens in the background generally unnoticed.

Some years ago no-one could check in at LAX for AirNZ flights out of the country as their electronic link to US CBP systems had failed.

I had to wait some hours until the link was restored.
 

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