border security
Controlling national boundaries
Border security refers to measures that control who and what crosses a country's boundaries—personnel, barriers, surveillance, checkpoints, and enforcement operations.
The term appears constantly in political debate, where it often functions as shorthand for immigration policy positions: The candidate ran on a platform of border security.
In practice, it encompasses everything from passport checks to physical walls to drone patrols.
- checkpointsInspection stations along routes
- port of entryAuthorized border crossing location
- counterterrorismCombating organized political violence
- fencesBoundary structures around yards
- immigration lawsRules governing foreign nationals' entry
drones · surveillance · radar systems · visa requirements · green card · biometric screening · smuggling · human trafficking · walls · canine units · territorial disputes · barriers · diplomatic negotiations · customs officers · customs regulations · intelligence gathering · no-man's land · visa
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- border controlvisa requirements, passport control, guard, customs inspection, immigration
- Political Issuesabortion, gun control, climate change, gay rights, death penalty
- security lawcounterterrorism, classified information, state secrets, FISA, Patriot Act
- defensedefense, defending, protecting, protection, safety
- espionagespy, spies, double agent, double agents, spying
border securityopen borders
Unregulated international passage
free movement · freedom of movement · borderless · free passage · no borders