KAPURTHALA: It took Lovepreet Kaur and her 10-year-old son 25 days and Indian Rs10 million to achieve the US with out paperwork, solely to be deported again to India.
Inside weeks of her arrival, she was despatched again to his native India on a army airplane, together with her palms and legs cuffed all through the journey.
Singh, 30, was amongst 104 Indians deported by U.S. authorities that fulfils a key election pledge of President Donald Trump however is a humiliation for India, a detailed associate, whose Prime Minister Narendra Modi is because of go to Washington subsequent week.
US authorities detained Lovepreet after which moved her and others onto a C-17 Globemaster plane this week for the journey again house. In a social media publish, U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) chief Michael W. Banks posted a video exhibiting some males being led right into a army airplane in handcuffs and legs in chains.
Lovepreet, a resident of Bholath in Kapurthala district of Indian Punjab, had paid Rs10 million to an agent for a promised direct path to the US, solely to be deceived and subjected to a troublesome and harrowing journey throughout 4 international locations, in line with the Indian media report.
They took the notorious ‘dunki’ route, which concerned travelling to Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico earlier than lastly crossing into the U.S. on January 27 however their desires had been short-lived.
“We had been saved in a camp for 5 days earlier than being shackled and flown again to India on February 2,” she instructed India Specific.
The deportation was additionally a monetary disaster for her household, who had taken a large mortgage to fund the journey.
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“I needed a greater future for my son. My household borrowed closely, believing we’d quickly reunite with our kinfolk in California. Now, every part is misplaced,” she instructed to Indian Specific.
She calls for the Indian authorities to take strict motion in opposition to human trafficking brokers, saying “The federal government should act in opposition to these criminals and recuperate our cash. They promote us desires, solely to desert us in international lands,” she mentioned.