If this is a coverup, it’s an incredibly inept one. I don’t discount that possiblilty. Criminals mostly get caught precisely because the do something really, really stupid.
You would think that whoever removed the records for that week from the INS records would also have removed them for several other weeks just to make it appear like random, shoddy bookeeping? Then again, criminals are stupid! Remember Sandy Berger?
Yeah, that’s an interesting point. Sandy Bergler did get caught, but whatever it was he was taking out of the archives has still never been identified. So, he got caught but he got away with it.