yeah, i'm not sure how to explain that one, but i'm sure there's a way to reason it out.

it could have been the difficulties of attempting to secure and contain an entire community, particularly one so well-publicized, unpredictable, constantly-fluctuating and scattered as the import community, with a possible side of controversy on whether or not to class imports as SCPs, plus the fact that imports are technically supposed to be heroes, and it would probably cause a larger societal upheaval for them all to vanish than leaving them be would cause, and due to all of that their original stance had been to give imports a pass.

but since they've been blowing shit up every couple of months for years, plus the publicity given to that by the anti-import community and vulcanus, they could have chosen to change that stance for the good of the native community?

does that sound believable.