Hi, I admit I haven’t read this thread, but saw your comment and needed to add something about ICE taking unaccompanied minors through customs; my daughter is court ordered to travel to Sweden each summer to stay with her father and I register as an unaccompanied minor, so she has a stewardess take her to the plane and then brings her out PAST customs to either myself or, on the other end, her dad. Never has an ICE agent had anything to do with it. People unaffiliated with the airline/airport, and those without a valid flight pass are not allowed to fetch luggage or go through customs with their children. My daughter has done this since 2007 twice a year, and it is always stressful, but under no circumstances do Airports allow anyone to come through customs who is not official, nor do they assign anyone above and beyond airline staff to watch the children. In fact, the past few times she has seen traded from stewardess to just an airline staffer once she gets off the plane, and this summer she was one of four kids in the staffer’s care. I can’t imagine that it was even more stringent per-9/11.
I’m not familiar with the customs procedure of Swiss authorities. You forgot to mention if your children were American citizens.
In America, foreign nationals who are Unaccompanied Minors cannot clear customs without a parent, close relative or guardian to assist them. The procedure is for an Unaccompanied Minor from a non-border country to be taken into protective custody. Keep in mind, Barry Soetoro was an Indonesian National traveling alone when he arrived in Hawai’i at 10 YO.
Furthermore, after SAD Soetoro took Barack “Soebarkah” Obama off her US passport, Barry Soetoro may not have had an Indonesian passport with him. We know from the Strunk FOIA documents that SAD Soetoro’s US Passport had expired when she returned to Hawai’i shortly after Barry landed in Hawai’i.