Question

why might the immigrants agents be interested in who paid for an immigrats's passage and how much money the immigrant had?

Answer 1

The immigrants agents are interested in disvoering people who finances and contrabands immigrants. By finding and arresting these people, they can assure that other people will not enter ilegally in the country scorted by these people. They are interested in how much money the immigrant had because if someone enter's with no money and say they are only going to visit, it is likely that they are actually going to stay overtime and work to live.

Answer 2

Immigrants agents are responsible for identifying, investigating, and dismantling vulnerabilities regarding the nation's border, economic, transportation, and infrastructure security. They may be interested in who paid for an immigrant's passage and how much money the immigrant had prior to arriving in the country, to determine the security threat or economic struggles that the immigrant would bring to the country.