experiencing a CDI investigation can be psychological torture

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For Cambodian refugees in particular, experiencing a CDI investigation can be
“psychological torture.”96 The tactics employed by CDI—surveillance from
unmarked vans, unannounced home visits, interviews with neighbors—may evoke
traumatic memories of the refugees’ imprisonment, enslavement, and torture at
the hands of their former government.

Indeed, one claimant related that “in Cambodia, such actions were followed by
imprisonment, and death.”97 These tactics may also aggravate the claimant’s
PTSD, causing hypervigilance, paranoia, and fear.98 One treating source reports
that “[s]ince these investigations started, all the symptoms came back:
nightmares, flashbacks, panic attacks; their homes don’t feel safe
anymore.”99 One claimant reportedly became so upset that “he did not even feel
comfortable in his own home anymore and wanted to commit suicide and kill his
whole family.”100