<BORDER SECURITY – AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE

7:30pm (PG)

The fight to protect our border continues on BORDER SECURITY - AUSTRALIA’S FRONT LINE. In tonight’s episode, A New Zealand man has a secret and Immigration needs to find out the truth. The return of two newlyweds creates a Cuban crisis. And not all children’s books have a happy ending.

Immigration relies on the cross flow of information between countries to help determine the validity of millions of travelers. Today, Sydney’s Immigration Department wants to talk to a passenger arriving from New Zealand about some details that don’t add up. His story about why he is here is developing a few holes. It appears he has outstanding charges back home and could be a possible fugitive. Will he be sent back home to face the music?

Quarantine officers have to be thorough and in some cases tough during their baggage searches because biological hazards can come from the most unexpected of places. Quarantine has just found undeclared items in the bags belonging to newlyweds who have returned from the groom’s homeland, Cuba. Things go from bad to worse after officers find something unusual on the x-ray. What are they hiding? Could their honeymoon be over before it’s even begun?

Thousands of letters and parcels come through Sydney’s International Mail Facility. Customs screen 100 per cent of incoming mail, so if something looks suspect it will show up on x-ray. Today, there seems to be a package within a package so whoever sent this parcel might have deliberately hidden something inside the book from Brazil.

Narrated by GRANT BOWLER, BORDER SECURITY- AUSTRALIA’S FRONTLINE takes viewers behind the scenes of our Immigration, Customs and Quarantine departments.