The absurdities were meant to be such, except the one about traditional dress. And they were forewarned that they were coming? Why? Because they had intelligence that they might try to smuggle people in (a reason!)
And my spelling of False as fals is a simple typo, not the Commonwealth spelling of defense that you chose.
Everyone shows documents, and a bad guy terrorist would make a scene ?
If everyone shows documents, why did they complain that they had to show documents?