border guard
Frontier crossing monitor
A border guard is an official stationed at a country's frontier to control who and what crosses.
Border guards check passports, inspect vehicles, and enforce immigration and customs laws.
The term applies both to individual officers and collectively to the security force: The border guard waved us through.
She served in the border guard for twenty years.
Regular surveillance route
- checkpointInspection station on route
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- frontierEdge of settlement
inspector · enforcement · agent · officer · sentry · watchtower · duty · shift
Government-issued travel credential
- visaTravel authorization stamp
- entryAccess or submission
- inspectionFormal assessment of condition
- screeningEvaluative selection process
verification · clearance · documentation · stamp · declaration · questioning · biometrics · database
Systematic observation of subjects
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- interdictionAuthoritative prohibition or blockade
- detectionAct of finding something
contraband · apprehension · pursuit · canine · scanner · deterrence · interception · alert
Shelter from persecution
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- undocumentedNot officially recorded
- detentionTemporary official holding
repatriation · migrant · crossing · coyote · humanitarian · processing · caravan
Land under jurisdiction
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- boundaryLine marking a limit
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
nation · perimeter · zone · buffer · disputed · DMZ · no-man's-land
patrol
Regular surveillance route
- checkpointInspection station on route
- immigrationRelocating abroad permanently
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
frontier · inspector · enforcement · agent · officer · sentry · watchtower · duty · shift · uniform
passport
Government-issued travel credential
- visaTravel authorization stamp
- entryAccess or submission
- inspectionFormal assessment of condition
screening · verification · clearance · documentation · stamp · declaration · questioning · biometrics · database · permit
surveillance
Systematic observation of subjects
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
- traffickingIllegal transport for profit
- interdictionAuthoritative prohibition or blockade
detection · contraband · apprehension · pursuit · canine · scanner · deterrence · interception · alert · watchlist
asylum
Shelter from persecution
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- refugeePerson fleeing danger abroad
- undocumentedNot officially recorded
detention · repatriation · migrant · crossing · coyote · humanitarian · processing · caravan
territory
Land under jurisdiction
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- boundaryLine marking a limit
- demarcationFormal boundary setting
jurisdiction · nation · perimeter · zone · buffer · disputed · DMZ · no-man's-land
- border controlvisa requirements, passport control, customs inspection, immigration, passport check
- customs jobsinspector, officer, customs broker
- occupationsdoctor, teacher, baker, lawyer, nurse
- securitysecurity cameras, alarm system, security system, lock, safe
- bordersboundary, boundary line, boundary lines, boundary markers, boundary stones
- guardsbodyguard, protector, sentinel, sentry, watchman
border guardimmigration lawyer
Attorney for foreign nationals
immigration attorney · human rights lawyer · visa sponsor · welcome committee · greeter
border guardcoyote
Wild North American canid
smuggler · people smuggler · snakehead · immigration lawyer · undocumented immigrant
border guardillegal immigrant
Foreign national present unlawfully
illegal alien · asylum seeker · refugee · migrant · deportee
guard, border, guarded, guardian, safeguard, borders, guarding, bordering, bordered