Are random passport checks the current norm when entering Switzerland by land?
I have noticed, going by bus and train to Switzerland, that border guards will often check passports/visas of selected car/train passengers. Buses are also often stopped whereby a border guard boards and collects everyone's documents for scanning.
Particularly common, it seems, at the road checkpoints in Kreuzlingen (coming from Konstanz), Chiasso (coming from Milan), St Louis (coming from Mulhouse) and Thayngen (coming from Singen/Stuttgart), as well as the Hamburg-Zurich ICE train.
Is this the current norm at (some or all) Swiss land crossings? I've noticed it being the case even before the migrant crisis.
I've even heard of people who got refused entry to Switzerland by land because they forgot their EU residence permit.
Note that I'm not talking about customs checks, but immigration checks, similar to the ones performed by Sweden when arriving by train from Denmark
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