– How do countries stop people from other countries entering theirs through the mountains, forests or water in the border?
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It’s not that easy to control the border by patrolling. Maybe works when theres a couple of illlegal trying to break in. But look what is going on in [Chile](https://youtu.be/XR6V61pQbDo) having a difficult time controlling the access from people mainly from Venezuela but also Colombia and Haiti. Tey are having a really bad time there and need to flee to a better oportunity but theres so many already inside that gets very difficult even to get an underpaid job. Some of them fairly looking to hard work and succeed but others bring the worst of the criminal world, latest incoming from El Salvador gangs.
Can’t you roam around Europe as refugee ? Aren’t the laws pretty open for those individuals?
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In the UK they don’t stop people entering via small boats and have a huge problem with hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, costing the UK tax payer £5m a day in hotel accommodation alone.
It is a political mess and no one has a workable solution.
Mountains and jungles tend to be pretty dangerous enough as is and water crossings are typically guarded by a coast guard or other type of patrol boat.
Countries use a variety of methods to prevent people from entering through the mountains, forests, or water along the border. These methods include building physical barriers such as walls or fences, deploying border patrol agents to patrol the area, using surveillance technologies such as cameras and drones to monitor the border, and increasing cooperation with neighboring countries to share intelligence and increase security. Additionally, countries may also use the military to help secure the border and prevent illegal crossing.
For water travel, there are usually agreed-upon methods for whether or not (and by what methods) foreign boats need to report or register themselves.
For example, Canada [does not require](https://cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/travel-voyage/pb-pp-eng.html) private boat operators to register if they’re just going around in Canadian waters, although they are required to do so if they stop anyplace or make contact with other boats. You have to make a phone call to their border service agency to tell them about your boat and all of the people on it. The US [requires](https://www.cbp.gov/travel/pleasure-boats-private-flyers/pleasure-boat-overview) pleasure boats to call the border patrol agency and show up in person at a port of entry or inspection station. (If the boat operator is in one of the “trusted traveler” programs like NEXUS, they only have to make the phone call to tell them about the boat and the people on it.) For both of those countries, the rules would be different for commercial boats.
While you could probably *initially* get away with landing a boat in many places without reporting, you’re playing the odds that you’re going to be tracked and eventually get in a lot of trouble. The Coast Guard (or equivalent) or border patrol might notice your foreign boat at a marina or harbor and look to see if you had reported yourself properly.
In addition to active guards, in a lot of cases natural will kill people trying to cross. For instance, imagine trying to cross between Spain and France through the mountains in the winter. That’s not an easy journey especially if you’re tyring to minimize being detected by not using roads.
It’s really hard to just wander through a large forest or mountain. Typically you’d want to follow a trail, but then patrolling a few trails is easy for border guards.
Mostly by making it extremely difficult to stay in the country illegally.
They may patrol the border, but even the nk/sk dmz has holes. Everything else is basically theater.
But once you’re in, without a visa you can’t get a legit job or license, or housing, even healthcare. And if you ever get noticed by the police, they deport you. So its not a matter of getting in, it’s wanting/being able to stay.
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