Even the narrow automatic one-way sluice doors[2] increasingly popular as you leave the secure area of an airport only ever seem to cause a queue when some idiot tries to go back, and security has to reset them.
When there's a queue at security/immigration it's because the checkpoint is understaffed (or otherwise under-provisioned), not because there's a checkpoint.
1: http://cdn.kone.com/www.kone.co.uk/Images/49562_Entrance_dou...
2: http://www.recorduk.co.uk/images/getImage?t=product&img=imag...