The Government’s wholesale re-engineering of South Africa’s immigration, customs and policing regimen through the Border Management Authority Bill on Tuesday hit a roadblock in Parliament. In the making for seven years – an indication of the snail’s pace of state policy-making – the presentations to MPs by Home Affairs, National Treasury and the SAPS highlighted entrenched departmental boundaries. But concerns arose that constitutional amendments and other legislative changes would be needed to give effect to this proposed authority, whose commissioner is directly appointed by the president. By MARIANNE MERTEN.