border patrol
Frontier security agents
Border patrol is the enforcement of national boundaries against unauthorized crossing.
A border patrol is an agency or unit tasked with this work: Border Patrol agents detained the group near the river.
The term often appears in discussions of immigration policy and smuggling interdiction.
In the United States, the Border Patrol is a federal law enforcement agency within Customs and Border Protection.
- checkpointInspection station on route
- port of entryAuthorized border crossing location
- visaTravel authorization stamp
- detentionTemporary official holding
- holding facilityPlace to confine people
enforcement · guard · smuggling · human trafficking · drone · radar · fence · Rio Grande · desert crossing · infrared imaging · customs · sensor · wall · watchtower · deportation · asylum · apprehension · catch and release
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- Police UnitsSWAT, SWAT team, homicide unit, detective unit, narcotics unit
- Peacekeepingpeacekeepers, peacekeeping missions, blue helmets, UN peacekeeping, UN missions
- patrol unitsmounted police, beach patrols, perimeter security
- IDFIDF, soldiers, army, military service, recruits
- Traffickingdrug trafficking, trafficking, trafficker, drug smuggling, smuggling
border patrolwelcome center
Facility greeting arriving guests
coyote · people smuggler · immigration services · visa processing · sanctuary movement
border patrolfree movement
Unrestricted ability to travel
Schengen zone · freedom of movement · sanctuary movement · no borders
border patrolhuman smuggling
Illegal transport of persons
coyote · people smuggler · humanitarian corridor · migrant shelter
border, patrol, patrolman, border control, border crossing, border guard