#bordercontrol — Public Fediverse posts

Great piece of reporting on the events in #Ceuta from the perspective of asylum seekers as well as the residents of the city (for once).

https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/they-swam-to-europe-but-are-still-stuck-on-north-african-shores/

#geography #geopolitics #Spain #Morocco #migration #Mediterranean #FortressEurope #borderlands #borders #borderexternalization #bordercontrol @geography @geopolitics

Spain’s Ceuta mass migration sparks an EU Schengen row: the legal reality behind the rhetoric.

The mass crossing of migrants into Spain’s small North African enclave has prompted EU anti-migrant rhetoric and calls to suspend the bloc’s border-free Schengen – despite fragile legal justifications.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260803-spains-ceuta-mass-migration-sparks-an-eu-schengen-row-the-legal-reality-behind-the-rhetoric?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Ceuta #Spain #Schengen #EU #Migration #BorderControl #Politics

I bet you that was a sign printed round the time of #Brexit implementation chaos in #Dover in 2021. Just baffling they made no effort or had no budget to bother even correcting it, it isn't just one but plastered all over #bordercontrol!

#spelling #ukpol

You can skip the long lines without Global Entry by using the MPC app

Understanding and defending against phone unlocking by Osservatorio Nessuno: https://pitg.gitlab.io/news/techdive/2026/04/17/phone-unlocking.html

#phoneunlocking #cellebrite #bordercontrol

Germany's border controls violate the EU's Schengen Agreement on freedom of travel, a court in the western city of Koblenz ruled on Monday, in a case brought by a law professor.

https://dpa-international.com/politics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260427-99-250809/

#SchengenAgreement #Schengen #BorderControl #Germany #OpenBorders #Europe

😃☺️Heute wird ein bedeutender Meilenstein in der europäischen Grenzsicherheit erreicht:Das Entry/Exit System (#EES) ist nun in allen Schengen-Ländern vollständig in Betrieb. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/entryexit-system/ #Schengen #BorderSecurity #EU #TravelTech #Biometrics #SmartBorders #DigitalBorders #BorderControl #Europe#DigitalBorders #BorderControl #Europe

The UK enforces an electronic travel permit for visitors from 85 countries.

Visitors from 85 countries must obtain an electronic travel permit before arriving in Britain from Wednesday or risk being denied boarding.

The Electronic Travel Authorisation, introduced in 2023, requires visa-exempt travellers to apply online and pay £16.

Enforcement becomes mandatory from 25 February.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260224-the-uk-enforces-an-electronic-travel-permit-for-visitors-from-85-countries?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#UK #ElectronicTravelAuthorisation #Travel #Borders #BorderControl

"Over the years, Congress continued to bolster the agency’s budget, pointing to the dangerous nature of its work.

As the Border Patrol was drawn into the war on drugs, the agency began getting military-grade equipment.

In 1992, a Border Patrol agent fired his semiautomatic weapon 12 times at an unarmed man in Nogales, Ariz., as he fled back to Mexico. Two shots hit the man in the back, and the agent dragged him to a nearby crevice where he died, the 1997 report said.

Between 2004 and 2011, the agency added nearly 11,000 agents, bringing it to a total of 21,400. The number of employees accused of misconduct or arrested off-duty increased, as well, the Government Accountability Office found in a 2013 report.

That was, in part, because the agency could not keep up with background checks, the G.A.O. found.

In 2010 Border Patrol agents hogtied, beat and used a stun gun to shock a 42-year-old unarmed Mexican father of five who was in custody after crossing the border illegally near San Diego. The man, Anastasio Hernández Rojas, died. The official cause of death was identified as a heart attack, and the Justice Department declined to criminally investigate the agents involved.

Last spring, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights concluded that U.S. law enforcement violated Mr. Rojas’s human rights, pointing to the “application of tactics that threaten life and integrity.” It called for the U.S. to reopen the investigation and hold the agents involved responsible.

“We’ve been having these conversations from the southern border for a long, long time,” said Andrea Guerrero, the executive director of Alliance San Diego, a community organization and part of a coalition that promotes human rights along the southern border. “But it is the first time that we’re seeing different communities experiencing the intensity of what we have lived.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/us/politics/border-patrol-history-aggression.html

#USA #Immigration #BorderPatrol #PoliceState #BorderControl #HumanRights #CivilLiberties