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I don't know about the UK, but the average customs and immigration employee in the USA does not have a security clearance.
by rdouble 13y ago
I don't know about the UK, but the average customs and immigration employee in the USA does not have a security clearance.
- reeses 13y agoYou may be confounding ICE, CIS, and CBP, which is completely understandable (never mind EOIR, which is over in the DOJ and muddying the waters even more). The majority of CBP are federal "law enforcement" and are required to obtain clearance in addition to the suitability investigation(which is the equivalent of a lifestyle + polygraph background check for s/ts clearance). If they look at a computer based on information provided by a person entering the country, they have to have clearance. Uncleared or precleared people will often hang out over the shoulder of someone with clearance, so it's not really that "secure", but it ensures that queries are handled by cleared personnel.