Sentence examples for lax border controls from inspiring English sources

Private brokers, shippers and front companies, many with links to foreign intelligence agencies, exploit weak export laws and lax border controls to funnel weapons to war zones.

And second, the illegal immigrants are getting through our lax border controls, which only encourages more to come and try their luck".

SINCE the 2001 terrorist attacks, America has been criticising Canada for lax border controls, claiming they had turned the country into "a safe haven" for criminals and terrorists.

The power grew out of the widely held perception that waves of foreigners were entering the country illegally, and then disappearing, by taking advantage of lax border controls and generous treatment of asylum seekers.

Echoing the Republican frontrunner, the spokesperson for the UK Independence Party said the "horrific act of terrorism shows that Schengen free movement and lax border controls are a threat to our security".

Although the procedures are more rigorous than they were and many so-called "bogus" colleges have been closed, the testing system – as several exposes have shown – is compromised, and lax border controls make it hard to ensure that students leave when their studies are complete.

Chertoff also explained his unease about lax border control arrangements for Europeans.

Border controls are lax, and smugglers know that fines are usually far lower than the potential rewards.

Petty peddlers make a living where border controls are lax or local officials can be bribed to look the other way.

Der Spiegel's foreign affairs editor Raniah Salloum pointed out that reintroduced border controls appear fairly lax.

Its border controls have been lax and its asylum-processing system slow and questionable (the approval rate for asylum applications is tiny compared with other EU countries).