I agree with you. There is no physical border between both sides. The Dutch side has more money floating around and a tougher police force. Therefore the logic for robbers is to live on the French side and rob on the Dutch one.

Immigration at Julianna only started working with the French police at the request of the French who also planted a few guys at Julianna.

Believe me, I lived on a border for 40 years and thieves love to exploit the administrative loopholes.

It's about time the SXM Govmt started tackle these issues globally instead of just shooting at the last robbers and waiting for the next ones.