New Delhi:
Long distance flights to South America, violent seas in shy ships, walks through treacherous land, dark cells on the border between the United States and Mexico and a deportation flight back to India: the promise of an American dream was He collapsed for 104 Indian migrants who returned India after the hard line position of US President Donald Trump about illegal immigration.
Harivender Singh, originally from Punjab’s Tahli village, said he was promised a visa in the United States for the agent who paid RS 42 Lakh. In the last minute, Singh was told that the visa did not arrive and then put on consecutive flights from Delhi to Qatar and then Brazil. “In Brazil, they told me that they will put me on a flight from Peru, but there was no such flight. Then the taxis took us further to Colombia and more at the beginning of Panama. From there, they told me that a ship will transport us, but neither does it either There was a ship.
After walking along a mountain route, Singh and the migrants who accompanied him were sent in a small boat to the depths of the sea towards the border of Mexico. On the four -hour maritime trip, the boat that carries them overturned, which led to the death of one of the people who accompany him. Another died in the Jungle of Panama. All this time survived in few rice portions.
Sukhpal Singh by Darapur Village also faced a similar test, traveling 15 hours per sea route and walking 40-45 kilometers through hills that were flanked by deep valleys. “If someone was injured, he stayed to die. We saw many corpses along the way,” he said. The trip had no fruit, since it was arrested in Mexico, just before it could cross the border to enter the United States. “We stayed in a dark cell for 14 days, and we never saw the sun. There are thousands of children, families and children in Punjabi in similar circumstances,” he said, attracting people who do not try to move abroad through wrong routes.
An American military plane that transported 104 illegal immigrants from several states landed in Amritsar on Wednesday, the first lot of Indians deported by the Donald Trump government. Of these, 33 each was from Haryana and Gujarat, 30 from Punjab, three each of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh, sources told the fountains. PTI. Nineteen women and 13 children, including a four -year -old boy and two girls, five and seven, were among those deported, they said.
Among them was Jaspal Singh, who said that his hands and legs were handcuffed throughout the trip and that they did not disconnect after landing at Amritsar airport. A travel agent had assured him that he would be sent to the United States legally, with the price linked to RS 30 Lakh. He was taken to Brazil, where he stayed for six months, before being captured by the border patrol of the United States on January 24.
Kanubhai Patel, whose daughter is among those deported, said she had gone to Vacation with her friends a month ago. “I have no idea what he planned after arriving in Europe. The last time we talked to her was on January 14. We have no idea how he arrived in the United States,” said Patel, a resident of the village of Chandranagar-Dabhla In the district of Mehsana.
The relatives of Punjab illegal immigrants said they took huge loans to facilitate their trip to the United States with the hope of a brilliant future but now face a crushing debt. Now they look for strict action against those agents.
“We sold how little we had and borrowed money in high interest to pay the agent, waiting for a better future. But he (agent) cheated us. Now, not only my husband has been deported, we also have a huge debt,” the Harivender Singh’s wife, Kuljinder Kaur, said PTI.
In Behbal Bahadue de Kapurthala, Gurreset Singh’s family had mortgaged his house and borrowed money to send him abroad. While in Fatehgarh Sahib, Jaswinder Singh’s family spent RS 50 Lakh to send it abroad, now you have to pay loans taken at high interest rates.
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