LOL. Since 2007, I remember multiple presentations on major security conferences, with videos, including US-based ones, of people going through Border Control in US, UK, EU etc. with completely fake biometric passports (invalid signatures, issued by fictional countries, etc etc.) — and this memo says that at least US CBP *still*, in 2018, does not have software to verify them at all! This explains things %)
https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/wyden-mccaskill-epassport-security-letter-to-cbp.pdf
UPD: submitted to HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=16439611