How can police droids arrest these people?

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How can the police droids arrest the forged illegals that land on Elysium at the start of the movie?

The question How are citizens of Elysium arrested? really got me thinking.

We are told that the droids cannot arrest a citizen and we are shown this when the president tells the droids to arrest Spider:

So we are shown how Spider hacks the system and makes "EVERYONE" a citizen, but in the beginning scene when the illegals land on Elysium, they have forged documents and as far as we can tell the droids cannot tell the difference.

So how can the droids arrest these people when by all accounts they are considered a citizen by the "System" which runs the droids?

Valorum · Answer

This is addressed in the film's screenplay. The computer is tracking the arrival of the ship, which it notes to be an illegal vessel. It then follows the individual arrivals and captures them systematically. We can assume that it's not looking at their personal status (as would-be citizens), but just acting on the principle that anyone who's entitled to be there wouldn't have come on an illegal transport.

INT. IMMIGRANT SHIP
  Throngs of illegal immigrants. The MOTHER strokes her DAUGHTER'S hair. Coke bottles and garbage float in zero G. The FATHER and his YOUNG SON lie waiting to land.
  
  NUN (V.O.): But it's illegal, they don't like us there.
  
  EXT. ELYSIUM - DAY
  As the ship pulls up to the surface...
  
  INT. PROTOCOL ROOM
  A very high-tech cylindrical room on the inside of Elysium. A tiny scroll of text blinks on a computer monitor:
  ILLEGAL ENTRY. DISPATCHING HOMELAND DEFENSE.
  
  EXT. ELYSIUM - DAY
  The graffitied ship touches down. The back bay doors open and
  the immigrants emerge. The MOTHER helps her sick DAUGHTER out
  onto the lawn of this new utopia.
  
  NUN (V.O.) So they send us home...
  
  The immigrants see HELICOPTER-LIKE VEHICLES dotting the skies, getting closer, filled with IMMIGRATION POLICE DROIDS. The immigrants run for their lives. The father and son get
  caught, as a droid fires a net over them, trapping them.

Note also that there's no real punishment here, just capture and release back to approximately where the immigrants came from.

How can police droids arrest these people?

How can the police droids arrest the forged illegals that land on Elysium at the start of the movie?

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