Salempura: It was necessary to Daler Singh six months and $ 45,000 to reach the United States last month without paperwork. Within three weeks after his arrival, he was sent back to his native India on a military plane, his hands and legs refreshed throughout the trip.
Singh, 37, was one of 104 Indians expelled by the American authorities on Wednesday in a very publicized transfer which fills a key electoral engagement of President Donald Trump but is a discomfort for India, a close partner, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi should visit Washington next week.
“I lost my life income. My dreams are broken,” said Singh at his home in the village of Salempura in the state of Punjab, bordering Pakistan.
“No one should take the illegal path and buy promises made by agents. People should go through the visa.”
Singh said he had to make a mortgage of family jewelry and land to raise around four million rupees ($ 45,700) to pay the agent. He said that his trip had involved flying to Dubai in early August, where he stayed several months before being hiking for days in Mexico on the United States.
The American authorities arrested him on January 15, then moved it as well as others on a C-17 Globemaster plane this week for the return home.
In an article on social networks, the head of the American border patrol (USBP), Michael W Banks, published a video showing that some men were led to a handcuffed military plane and legs in the channels.
“The USBP and the partners have managed to return illegal foreigners to India, marking the most distant expulsion flight with military transport,” said Banks on X.
“This mission underlines our commitment to apply immigration laws and to ensure rapid moves. If you cross illegally, you will be deleted.”
The return of the Indians, aged four to 46, and comprising 25 women, gave the country’s opposition parties a chance to fight back to the government of Modi, which spoke of stimulating links with the United States.
The deportees came from five Indian states, including the original state of Gujarat de Modi and the federal territory of Chandigarh.
Handcuff
“Our hands and legs were handcuffed throughout,” said Singh, looking tired after the long journey when journalists put questions about him, his wife and two children moving in the Court of their one -stage house by a wheat field.
“They did not unlock our wrists even when we ate.”
The Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs, S Jaishankar, told Parliament that he was standard for the American immigration and customs authorities to retain deportees but that this has not been done with women and children of The plane for India.
“We are of course committed to the American government to ensure that the return deportees are not mistreated in any way during the flight,” he said.
“At the same time, the room will appreciate that our objective is repression, a strong repression against the illegal migration industry, while taking measures to facilitate visas for the legitimate traveler.”
He said Indian law enforcement organizations would act against agents who organize such immigration according to the information from returnees. Jaishankar said that over the past 16 years, more than 15,000 Indians have been expelled in India from the United States
One of them was Akashdeep Singh, 23, who arrived in the United States last month having not obtained a job in India. His agricultural family sold two tractors and land and contracted loans to raise more than 6 million rupees for their illegal trip.
“Why do we send our children outside? There is no job here,” said Singh’s father Swaran Singh. “We demand jobs for our children, so we never have to send them back.”
