Subject: Re: Welcome to Chinese Operatives
But this is someone they believe will have the capability to successfully fool multiple Homeland Security officials in multiple interviews that they are from a different country, have experienced repression or persecution that they haven't experienced, and can persuade those officials to release them from detention despite having no documentation and being unknown to all their fellow travelers. - Albaby

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Perhaps this is where the disparity in threat level originates.

I don't believe there is anything close to the level of interrogation (necessarily augmented by attempts to corroborate claims by locating documents or interviewing witnesses) that you describe above could actually be going on. Nope, not when your sector has to clear 10,000 to 25,000 a month to keep the line moving.