Then we could all go trick-or-treating as border control guards with our own drones.
Mr Putin spoke after Russian border control guards boarded Greenpeace vessel the Arctic Sunrise in the Arctic's Pechora Sea, near to oil company Gazprom's platform.
It easy to forget that this is the heart of a contentious part of the world -- until you spot a big truck filled with US border control guards watching you.
I've been playing Papers, Please a lot this weekend on iPad: a touchscreen tablet feels like the perfect device for the game, which sees you checking people's papers as a border-control guard in the fictional state of Arstozka.
Explaining the scene now he said, "There's not security, there's no response team, there's not border control, no guards".
The United States and Canada today approved a declaration calling for a "smart border," committing the two nations to cooperation on a range of border control and law enforcement measures intended to guard against terrorists while speeding the free flow of trade.
The migration flows towards the Aegean Sea and the Central Mediterranean are the highest that have been recorded in recent memory, according to the Greek coast guard and Europe's border control agency Frontex.
Air traffic controllers, prison guards, those who are with border control -- Border Patrol will remain on their posts, but their paychecks will be delayed until the government reopens.
The plan will prove highly divisive among national governments, most of which jealously guard their sovereign powers over border control.
Italy has coordinated the rescues by its own navy and coast guard, a French ship acting on behalf of the European border control agency, merchant ships of various nationalities and one vessel run by the privately funded Migrant Offshore Aid Station.
Member states have so far provided less than half the 374 experts and 743 border guards requested by the European Asylum Support Office and Frontex, the European border control agency, respectively.
