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Norway may put a fence along part or all of the 123-mile border it shares with Russia, a move inspired by a similar project in its Nordic neighbor Finland.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/1WMyN

SpinScore: https://spinscore.io/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapnews.com%2Farticle%2Fnorway-russia-border-fence-finland-migrants-arctic-dad4878a24fa550dd9eac9d1a6532274

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Norwegian, Finnish and Polish border forces seem to disagree with your estimate on border fences and seem to think as them as valuable tools in addition to others they have. Those are the ones who have had to deal with this migrant issue.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it the people actually studying effectiveness of preventing security threats from crossing borders, or the politicians and leaders who want to be seen as doing something visible to deal with the ‘migrant issue’ dispite the pure absurdity of suggesting that people who crossed continents will see a fence and just decide to stay illegally in Russia of all places?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

In Finland it was the border guards who were calling for this. Same for Poland. And it's easy to see why since it can play an important part in controlling but also as a deterrent and help in knowing about illegal border crossing.