Only if it’s freeform teleportation that is man portable.
If you can’t carry it with you, you only get one trip, so that limits how many crossings are possible by a single person, and they could choose to imprison rather than deport.
If it isn’t freeform, you’d have to have a destination receiver of some kind, which would make it fairly easy to control in the same way as airplanes are.
Hell, depending on how it worked, there might be range limits. Even Star Trek transporters have range limits, despite them being huge. Other versions in fiction have required steps to get anywhere distant, and the harder the sci-fi, the more limited the range is because there’s a ton of obstacles to any theoretical basis for teleportation.
The most realistic ones, you’d be sending a signal, and signals all have the possibility of degradation or interference, and that increases over distance. So you’d likely be looking at in city or city to city ranges if it was a possibility (and afaik, it isn’t anything that can be achieved)
Only if it’s freeform teleportation that is man portable.
If you can’t carry it with you, you only get one trip, so that limits how many crossings are possible by a single person, and they could choose to imprison rather than deport.
If it isn’t freeform, you’d have to have a destination receiver of some kind, which would make it fairly easy to control in the same way as airplanes are.
Hell, depending on how it worked, there might be range limits. Even Star Trek transporters have range limits, despite them being huge. Other versions in fiction have required steps to get anywhere distant, and the harder the sci-fi, the more limited the range is because there’s a ton of obstacles to any theoretical basis for teleportation.
The most realistic ones, you’d be sending a signal, and signals all have the possibility of degradation or interference, and that increases over distance. So you’d likely be looking at in city or city to city ranges if it was a possibility (and afaik, it isn’t anything that can be achieved)