No. of Recommendations: 2
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.Why are you assuming they're unknown to their fellow travelers? Why can't I send a bunch of them over?
Or better yet, pay some coyotes to vouch for them?
And do you really think that very many people crossing the border actually have good documentation? Do you really think a lot of those people want background checks done on them?
If these guys are just foot soldiers, they're not going to be able to pretend (in flawless Honduran-inflected Spanish) to be from some Central Triangle country fleeing persecution sufficient to fool a DHS officer who spends his day literally doing nothing but talking to people fleeing the Central Triangle. Far more people that just Guatemalans/Hondurans/Costa Ricans/Salvadorans are crossing the border. They're getting 22k a month from places other than Mexico/Guatemala/El Salvador and Honduras.
cbp.gov - Southwest land border encountersHow hard is it to learn the right key words to say? It's not.
Anyone who's got the skills to pull that off is worth buying a fake passport for. Which, again, is what all the other international terrorists do and have done.They don't need to. They can just walk over the border and if caught, claim asylum.
