If I were trying to build a cover, I'd therefore go with somebody who's not American, so any slip will be easily attributed to 'well, she's not from here'.
For what it's worth, the real-life illegals programme did/does use this tactic (not for everyone, but for many of them). The "German" illegals recently arrested after having been in Germany since the 80s had Austrian cover identities, for example. And often they would train illegals in two foreign languages, and one would be their cover identity's language, and one would be the language of the country they were going to be sent to.
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Date: 2014-04-02 12:43 pm (UTC)For what it's worth, the real-life illegals programme did/does use this tactic (not for everyone, but for many of them). The "German" illegals recently arrested after having been in Germany since the 80s had Austrian cover identities, for example. And often they would train illegals in two foreign languages, and one would be their cover identity's language, and one would be the language of the country they were going to be sent to.
-J