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Border controls are measures used by a country
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
 to monitor or regulate its border
Border

Borders define geography boundaries of political geography or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, states or Subnational entity. They may foster the setting up of buffer zones....
s.

The control of the flow of many people, animals and goods across a border may be controlled by government Customs services. Security is enforced by various kinds of Border Guard
Border guard

Border Guard, Border Patrol, Border police, or Frontier police is a national security agency that performs border control, i.e., enforces the security of national borders....
s and Coast Guard
Coast guard

A coast guard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. However the term implies widely different responsibilities in different countries....
s.






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Border controls are measures used by a country
Country

Country may refer to the territory of a state, or to a smaller, or former, political division of a geographical region. In another meaning of the word, the country is also a term used to refer to rural areas....
 to monitor or regulate its border
Border

Borders define geography boundaries of political geography or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, states or Subnational entity. They may foster the setting up of buffer zones....
s.

The control of the flow of many people, animals and goods across a border may be controlled by government Customs services. Security is enforced by various kinds of Border Guard
Border guard

Border Guard, Border Patrol, Border police, or Frontier police is a national security agency that performs border control, i.e., enforces the security of national borders....
s and Coast Guard
Coast guard

A coast guard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. However the term implies widely different responsibilities in different countries....
s. Official designations, jurisdictions and subordinations of these agencies vary.

Border controls exist to:
  • regulate immigration
    Immigration

    While the movement of people has thought throughout history at various levels, modern immigration tourism are considered non-immigrants . Immigration that violates the immigration laws of the destination country is termed illegal immigration or undocumented immigration....
     (both legal and illegal)
  • control the movement of citizens
  • collect excise tax
  • prevent smuggling
    Smuggling

    Smuggling, also known as trafficking, is the clandestine transportation of goods or persons past a point where prohibited, such as out of a building, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of the law or other rules....
     of drugs, weapons, endangered species
    Endangered species

    An endangered species is a population of an organism which is at risk of becoming extinct because it is either few in numbers, or threatened by changing environmental or predation parameters....
     and other illegal or hazardous material
  • control the spread of human or animal diseases (see also quarantine
    Quarantine

    Quarantine is voluntary or compulsory isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous, often but not always disease....
    )


The degree of strictness of border controls depends on the country and the border concerned. In some countries, control may be targeted at the traveller's national origin or other countries that have been visited. Others may need to be certain the traveller has paid the appropriate fees for their visas
Visa (document)

A visa is an indication that a person is authorized to enter the country which "issued" the visa, subject to permission of an immigration official at the time of actual entry....
 and has future travel planned out of the country. Yet others may concentrate on the contents of the travellers baggage, and imported goods to ensure nothing is being carried that might bring a biosecurity
Biosecurity

Biosecurity is a set of preventive measures designed to reduce the risk of intentional removal of a valuable biological material. These preventative measures are a combination of systems and practices usually put into place at a legitimate bioscience laboratory that could be sources of pathogens and toxins for malicious use....
 risk into the country. In the member states of the Schengen agreement
Schengen Agreement

File:SchengenAgreement map.svgThe Schengen Agreement is a treaty signed between five of the then ten member states of the European Community in 1985....
, internal border control is often virtually unnoticeable, and often only performed by means of random car or train searches in the hinterland
Hinterland

The hinterland is the land or district behind the borders of a coast or river. Specifically, by the doctrine of the hinterland, the word is applied to the inland region lying behind a port, claimed by the state that owns the coast....
, while controls at borders with non-agreement states may be rather strict.

See also

  • Border
    Border

    Borders define geography boundaries of political geography or legal jurisdictions, such as governments, states or Subnational entity. They may foster the setting up of buffer zones....
  • Border checkpoint
    Border checkpoint

    A border checkpoint is, as its name suggests, a place on the List of land border lengths between two states where the travellers and / or goods are inspected....


Bibliography

  • Champion P.D.; Hofstra D.E.; Clayton J.S.(2007) Border control for potential aquatic weeds. Stage 3. Weed risk assessment. Science for Conservation 271. p. 41. Department of Conservation, New Zealand.