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Border patrol   /bˈɔrdər pətrˈoʊl/   Listen
Border patrol

noun
1.
A group of officers who patrol the borders of a country.



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"Border patrol" Quotes from Famous Books



... without prejudice to the rights or obligations of either country in a final settlement to be reached by arbitration. The tentative line chosen was one which, under the circumstances brought to the knowledge of this Government, seemed to conform to the best interests of the disputants. The border patrol which it had been found necessary to reestablish for customs purposes between the two countries was instructed provisionally ...
— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various
... Civil Guard, Rural Assistance Guard, and Frontier Guards as separate entities; they are now under the Ministry and operate on a geographic command basis performing ground security, law enforcement, counternarcotics, and national security (border patrol) functions; ...
— The 1999 CIA Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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