Deportees came shackled on plane, saw people dying on way to U.S.
The Hindu
104 deportees from the U.S. land in Amritsar, India, sharing harrowing tales of their journey, deception, and shattered dreams.
Jaspal Singh, who was among 104 deportees brought in a U.S. aircraft on Wednesday (February 5, 2025), claimed that their hands and legs were cuffed throughout the journey and they were unshackled only after landing at the Amritsar airport.
Mr. Singh, 36, who hails from Hardorwal village in Gurdaspur district, said he was captured by the U.S. Border Patrol on January 24.
A U.S. military aircraft carrying 104 illegal immigrants from various States landed here on Wednesday, the first such batch of Indians deported by the Donald Trump government as part of a crackdown against illegal immigrants.
Of them, 33 each were from Haryana and Gujarat, 30 from Punjab, three each from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh, sources said.
Nineteen women and 13 minors, including a four-year-old boy and two girls, aged five and seven, were among the deportees, they said.
Deportees from Punjab were taken to their native places in police vehicles from the Amritsar airport.
After reaching his home town Wednesday night, Mr. Jaspal said he was defrauded by a travel agent as he was promised that he would be sent to the U.S. in a legal way.
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