More than one hundred Indians, who tried to enter the US, returned home illegally – their hands and feet in a special flight on Wednesday – in a special flight on Wednesday. Many of them have sold their land and other assets to pay ‘agents’ for their long illegal journey on the other side of the world.
Now, they are back where they started, empty -handed.
Bits and pieces of information have started coming on how they were taken by agents to the US, who alleged a fate of throwing them into American soil above the fence. Many people have said that they were left in half the way by their travel agents.
Videos have surfaced, allegedly showing Indians and Indians, including women and children, who are camping in a forest area in Panama, before they continue their long journey on the Mexico and the US border.
In the video, many Indians have been installed tents in a small clearing in the forest.
Men are seen in rubber shoes sitting in mud, and in their lap, women are seen near the tents with infants. In a video, the Indian is in Rainkot amid heavy baths in the jungle.
A tough journey from Panama will then go north of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala before entering Mexico, from where they will try to enter the US.
American military aircraft, carrying 104 illegal migrants from several states, arrived at Amritsar in Punjab on Wednesday, which took the first such batch of Indians exerted by the Trump administration as part of a rift against illegal immigrants.
The news agency PTI reported that Jaspal Singh, who was among the 104 exiled, said that his hands and feet were in the entire journey and were uncontrolled only after landing at Amritsar Airport. Shri Singh, a resident of Hardorwal village in Gurdaspur, said that he was caught by the US border patrol on 24 January.
Mr. Jaspal alleged that he was cheated by a travel agent who promised that he would be sent through a reasonable, legal channel. “I asked the agent to send me through a proper visa. But he cheated me,” Mr. Jaspal said, he was dealt with for Rs 30 lakh.
Another Indian, Harvinder Singh said that he left for the US in August last year. He was taken to Qatar, Brazil, Peru, Columbia, Panama, Nicaragua and then Mexico. From Mexico, he was taken to America with others, he said.
He said, “We crossed the hills. A boat, which was taking me with other people, was to captivate in the sea, but we survived,” he told reporters. He said that he saw a person dying in the Panama forest and drowning in a sea.
Mr. Singh said that his travel agent promised that he would be taken to Europe and then Mexico first. He said that he spent Rs 42 lakh for his visit to America.
“Sometimes, we got rice. Sometimes, we didn’t find anything to eat. We used to get biscuits,” he said.
US action was taken a few days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington for extensive talks with President Trump.
The exiles were questioned by various government agencies including the Punjab Police, and various government agencies, including the state and central intelligence agencies, whether they had any criminal records.
