“45 kilometers away, saw dead bodies on the way”: Indians deported us

New Delhi:

Long flights to South America, violent seas in Totri boats, walking through a treacherous area, dark cells along the US-Maxico border and a exile flight in India-Promise of one American dreams became flat for 104 Indian migrants. India who returned to India after a radical trend on illegal immigration of US President Donald Trump.

Harvinder Singh, a native of Tahli village in Punjab in Hoshiarpur district, said that he was promised a work visa in the US, which he paid Rs 42 lakh. At the last minute, Singh was told that the visa did not come and was later placed on continuous flights from Delhi to Qatar and then Brazil. “In Brazil, I was told that I would be put on a flight from Peru, but there was no such flight. Then the taxis took us in Colombia and the beginning of Panama. From there, I was told that a ship transported us to us Will do, but there was no ship.

After passing through a hill route, the lion and the migrants with him were sent to the border of Mexico in a deep sea in a small boat. In a four -hour marine trip, the boat carried the boat, causing one of the persons with him. Another died in the Panama forest. All this, while they survived in small parts of rice.

Sukhpal Singh of Darpur village also had to face equally, which was traveling for 15 hours by sea route, and was running through the hills at a distance of 40-45 km which was inflamed by deep conduct valleys Were. “If someone was injured, he was released to die. We saw several bodies on the way,” he said. There was no fruit in the yatra, as the native of Jalandhar district was arrested in Mexico before he could cross the border to enter the US. “We were recorded in a dark cell for 14 days, and we never saw the sun. There are thousands of Punjabi boys, families and children in equal circumstances,” he said, appealing to the people and going abroad through wrong routes. Did not try

An American military aircraft carrying 104 illegal migrants from various states landed in Amritsar on Wednesday, which were the first such batch of Indians deported by the Donald Trump government. Out of them, each 33 from Haryana and Gujarat, 30 from Punjab, three were from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh, sources said. PTINineteen women and 13 minors, including a four -year -old boy and two girls, who were five and seven years old, were deported.

Among them were Jaspal Singh, who claimed that his hands and feet were in full journey and he was unwanted only after landing at Amritsar Airport. He was assured by a travel agent that he would be sent to the US in a legal manner, which was priced at Rs 30 lakh. He was taken to Brazil, where he stayed for six months, captured by the US border patrol team on 24 January.

Kanubhai Patel, whose daughter is one of the exile, claimed that she went to Europe for a holiday with her friends a month ago. Patel, a resident of Chandranagar-Dabhla village in Mehsana district of Gujarat, said, “I have no idea what he planned after reaching Europe. The last time we talked to him, then we were on 14 January It was not a matter of how she reached America. “

Family members of the illegal migrants of Punjab said that they took a huge loan to convenience their journey in the hope of a bright future, but now the debt is facing crushing. They now want strict action against those agents.

“Whatever we sold to us and borrowed money at high interest to pay the agent, expecting a better future. But he (the agent) cheated us. Now, not only my husband Has been deported, we have also been abandoned with a huge loan, “Kuljinder Kaur, wife of Harvinder Singh, told PTI,

In Behbhidu, Kapurthala, Gurpreet Singh’s family mortgaged his house and borrowed money to send him abroad. While living in Fatehgarh Sahib, Jaswinder Singh’s family spent Rs 50 lakh to send him abroad, now the loan taken at high interest rates will have to be paid.

It is worth noting that Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Navanshar districts include ‘NRI belts’ in Punjab, which every year sees a large number of immigrants in countries abroad.