A "border checkpoint" refers to a designated area where immigration or customs officials inspect people, vehicles, and goods passing through a border between countries. Full definition
Giuseppe Sartori, a forensic neuroscientist at the University of Padua in Italy and an author of the paper, says it could be used as a «first screen» to check people's alibis in criminal investigations, verify identities online, or even cull terrorists from refugees at border checkpoints. (sciencemag.org)
Used as a GDR border checkpoint from 1949 to 1990, nearly 20 million travelers were controlled and sometimes arrested here. (keyt.com)
It is still a working station, and the featureless concrete border checkpoint behind the 1885 station building houses the GDR railroad museum. (keyt.com)