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Border Security: Australia's Front Line
2004 · TV series · documentary · 30 min episodes · 22 seasons
Border Security: Australia's Front Line is an Australian television program that airs on the Seven Network. The show follows the work of officers of Australian Customs and Border Protection, the Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service, and the Department of Immigration and Citizenship as they enforce Australian customs, quarantine, immigration and finance laws. Most of the programme is filmed at Sydney and Melbourne airports. Occasionally, the program features other locations such as Brisbane Airport, Perth Airport, seaports, international mail centres, raids on workplaces suspected of employing persons contrary to the restrictions of their visa or immigrant status and the work of Customs vessels and aircraft in the waters of Northern Australia.
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If it was every EU national then mainstream media outside of the Guardian bubble would be all over this.
That does not appear to be so, heck all countries have border checks that vary and you can always find instances of social drama to paint a picture that distorts the average experience.
When I went to the USA I had eye scan upon entry - bit more personal than fingerprints and happily understood that.
In the UK we was warned that due to EU regulation that travelling to the EU after UK left the EU would entail fingerprint checks etc, https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/775886/Brexit-immigration-EU-borders-travel-British-citizens-visa-photograph-fingerprints-US
Heck even EU countries must comply with various checks and regulations regarding border control and let's not forget EURODAC and the many other fingerprinting/security check systems they operate and are they evil - nope, case of a product of our times and how border checks always operated. Just a bit more automated/technological these days.
Back onto border checks - this is something all countries do and things like this you can watch upon many of the TV shows that literally documentary film such things. TV shows like Customs UK, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0439351/ etc etc, fair few TV shows that work around such aspects of life.
Yep. Wish I could find a link, but there's one episode of Border Security: Australia's Front Line, where a tourist / backpacker is asked to demonstrate proof of sufficient funds to enter the country. He's escorted by Border Security to an ATM, where they ask him to access his account and display the account balance on screen for them to verify. He didn't have to comply, but if he didn't do so they intended to deport him back to his home country, at which point he would have been subject to a 3 year exclusion period from visiting Australia again.
Isnt that standard procedure in Australia? I watched a few Border Security: Australia's Front Line episodes and I remember seeing them take someones phone and text/call few listed contacts pretending to be the user. Australian border as a whole is very communist Russia/East Berlin like, papers, where are ze nuts? who do you know? why do you come here to terk urr jerbs? and obligatory 'are you a criminal?', as if they still only let criminals in (btw they really dont like this joke).