{"id":25640,"date":"2020-05-18T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-18T05:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/u-s-to-deport-161-indians-this-week\/"},"modified":"2020-05-18T11:00:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-18T05:30:06","slug":"u-s-to-deport-161-indians-this-week-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=25640","title":{"rendered":"U.S. to deport 161 Indians this week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Among those on the list to be deported, the maximum 76 are from Haryana, followed by 56 from Punjab; 12 from Gujarat; five from Uttar Pradesh; four from Maharashtra ; two each from Kerala, Telengana and Tamil Nadu; and one each from Andhra Pradesh and Goa.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/us-to-deport-161-indians-this-week\/article31611807.ece\">PTI<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The United States this week will deport 161 Indian nationals, most of whom had entered the country from its southern border with Mexico and have exhausted all legal options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A special chartered flight will take them to Punjab\u2019s Amritsar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among those on the list to be deported, the maximum 76 are from Haryana, followed by 56 from Punjab; 12 from Gujarat; five from Uttar Pradesh; four from Maharashtra ; two each from Kerala, Telengana and Tamil Nadu; and each from Andhra Pradesh and Goa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Satnam Singh Chahal, executive director, North American Punjabi Association (NAPA), they are from among the 1,739 Indians languishing in 95 jails across the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They were arrested by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE while trying to enter the United States illegally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an ICE report, the US deported 611 Indian nationals in 2018, which rose over two-and-a-half times to 1,616 in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NAPA said among the 161 to be deported to India, three are women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The youngest of them are two 19-year-old youths from Haryana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fate of the remaining Indians languishing in the US jails is still unknown, Mr. Chahal said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though there is no data to show from which Indian states those languishing in the US jails came, most of them are believed to be from North India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most detainees had asked for an asylum, claiming that they experienced violence or persecution in their home country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past a few years, US judges did not buy their argument and dismissed their applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Chahal, who has been working among them for years, alleged that there is a nexus of human traffickers and officials in north India, especially Punjab, who encourage young people to leave their homes and illegally enter the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These middlemen and agents charge Rs 35-50 lakh from each individual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement, Mr. Chahal urged the Punjab government and the Centre to take action against illegal agents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among those on the list to be deported, the maximum 76 are from Haryana, followed by 56 from Punjab; 12 from Gujarat; five from Uttar Pradesh; four from Maharashtra ; two each from Kerala, Telengana and Tamil Nadu; and one each from Andhra Pradesh and Goa. PTI The United States this week will deport 161 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}