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Border guard
Government service concerned with security of national borders / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Immigration officer.
This article is about border guards in general. For specific agencies, see Border Guard (disambiguation).
"Border patrol" redirects here. For other uses, see Border Patrol (disambiguation).
A border guard of a country is a national security agency that performs border security. Some of the national border guard agencies also perform coast guard (as in Germany, Italy or Ukraine) and rescue service duties.
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