Mike,
 
MP> Ummm... Spain protects some of its borders.  Maybe not the ones with
MP> France or Portugal, but they do the ones with Morocco.
 
Please look at what that border is and where it is located. It's about the same
 as claiming that Guantanamo also needs a wall to keep illegal immigrants out.
 
MP> That said, I think most of those countries you listed above are members
MP> of the EU, only border other EU countries, and don't share borders with
MP> non-EU countries. Not real good examples.
 
Irrelevant. the statement I reacted to was:
 
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  The rest of your list of countries all have militaries that are
  charge for protecting each country's borders.
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Very good example therefor. Also because there is a difference between
EU-countries, Schengen-Treaty countries and the ones that are not.
 
Norway is not a EU-country. Neither are the Holy See, Liechtenstein, Monaco,
Andorra, Switzerland ... But Norway is a Schengen country, just as
Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
 
Ireland is EU and not Schengen but nobody wants to go there anymore. And the UK
 ... well ... I hope they live happily ever after after Brexit.
 
FYI ... The Schengen Area is an area comprising 26 European states that have
officially abolished passport and all other types of border control at their
mutual borders. The area mostly functions as a single jurisdiction for
international travel purposes, with a common visa policy
 
The borders are there, but no need of protecting the internal border. Most of
the outside border is "water". Except the area to the east, mainly the
southeast. There was a major influx of undocumented immigrants in the past but
that has been stopped in part by making it more difficult to make the trip (to
be honest, in winter it is hell), by keeping them and screening them close to
their point of departure in Turkey (for which the EU pays). Rejected applicants
 for immigration are transported back tot heir country of origin ... that
screening is a process that can take years.
 
The only route still open is across the Mediterranean, the difficulty
containing that is the political instability of Lybia.
 
But comparing our immigrant-scare wth yours is comparing oranges with apples.
 
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