border enforcement
Policing national boundaries
Border enforcement is the effort to regulate who and what crosses a national boundary.
This includes physical barriers, patrols, checkpoints, and detention of those who enter without authorization.
The term often appears in political debates about immigration: The bill allocates billions for border enforcement.
Critics and supporters disagree sharply on whether stricter enforcement deters illegal crossings or simply pushes them to more dangerous routes.
- patrolRegular surveillance route
- checkpointInspection station on route
- port of entryAuthorized border crossing location
- wallVertical enclosing structure
- fenceBoundary structure between properties
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- borderlandsfrontier, frontier region, marchland, marches, march
- anti-traffickingrescue, prosecution, investigation, victim protection, safe house
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- bordersboundary, boundary line, boundary lines, boundary markers, boundary stones
- deportationdeportee, deportees, deportation order, removal, mass deportation
border enforcementopen borders
Unregulated international passage
free movement · freedom of movement · visa-free travel · amnesty · path to citizenship
border enforcementturning a blind eye
Intentionally disregarding something obvious
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