Contextes de border pour le sens concret

Lien: http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/56628/stephen-e-flynn/beyond-border-control


The global economy opens national borders to goods and people, legal
and illegal. Narcotics, disease, illegal immigrants, and terrorists and
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globalization. International companies and government regulators need
to invest in new technologies to help border control keep pace with
booming commerce. Then they must learn to cooperate with one another.
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last year. The United States has nearly 100,000 miles of shoreline and
almost 6,000 miles of borders with its neighbors. People and goods
arrive daily at more than 3,700 terminals in 301 ports of entry.
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challenge of filtering the bad from the good might seem to be increased
funding for border controls. On the face of it, such an investment
would appear logical. Stopping threats at the frontier is better than
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police, there should be more agents and security forces along the
border to do so.

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need for greater oversight of the goods and people that flow into the
United States is obvious. But draconian border-control measures would
cripple the U.S. economy. Washington must work with other governments