I would like to see a situation in any country in the Western World, in which immigration officials deported a minor child - whose only identification was a passport with his name on it, and an elderly couple who claimed to be his grandparents and couldn’t prove they were.
Where would you send him, after his ‘mother’ had all of him or part of him removed from her passport?
He’s not a parcel sent by air, he’s a human being! They can’t just turn him around and send him back, TO WHOM AND TO WHERE?
Or was he being deported FROM Indonesia? Did they discover he wasn’t Lolo son and one of their laws had been broken by BS living in the home?
I agree that the minor unaccompanied child is/was a dilemma for anyone!
However, as a foreigner I delt, all my professional life, with all kind of countries Immigration authorities. Now today is total different than it was in the sixties seventies and no Immigration were more strict than the U.S.’s.
If we had call on ports in the USSR, we used our Seaman’s Book as ID there, because had we used our Passports, which we used in the U.S. ports we would have been denied shore leaves because of the communist’s stamps.
Our crew lists had to be endorsed by the U.S. consulates in the last port for verification. If we could not presenting such crew list, NO shore leaves, and armed guards placed at our gangway.
Another intimidating experience was that every crewmembers had to present his private parts in front of the quarantee doctor as well. ONLY in the U.S. The Frenchmen later took care of that getting rid of this shameless procedure.
The U.S. INS had NO mercy whatsoever regardless of circumstances.
Then again I was requesting how he was shipped to the U.S. from Indonesia???