In a transatlantic deportation without precedent, Mexico has put 311 Indians - caught illegally entering the country and trying to cross over to the US - on a Boeing 747-400 charter scheduled to touch down at Delhi airport early on Friday.
Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said in a release that the deportees, who are being escorted back home by 60 federal migration agents, had been found to have entered the country without valid documents for "regular stay" over the past few months.
The mass deportation revived memories of the tragedy that befell a family from Punjab in June, when a six-year-old girl died of a heat stroke in the Arizona desert on the US-Mexico border after her mother went in search of water during their illegal border crossing. The body of Gurpreet Kaur was found after two Indian women apprehended by US border patrol revealed that a mother and her two children had been with them until a few hours earlier.
Sources said each member of the group possibly paid Rs 25-30 lakh to the agents who arranged their travel to Mexico and promised to help them illegally cross over to the United States.
US President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports if the country did not put a check on people illegally entering US through the porous borders forced its hand, sources said. A source said the Boeing 747-400 that took off from Mexico's Toluca City International Airport with 311 deportees was expected to land in Delhi at 5.45am on Friday.
18/10/19 Times of India
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Mexico's National Migration Institute (INM) said in a release that the deportees, who are being escorted back home by 60 federal migration agents, had been found to have entered the country without valid documents for "regular stay" over the past few months.
The mass deportation revived memories of the tragedy that befell a family from Punjab in June, when a six-year-old girl died of a heat stroke in the Arizona desert on the US-Mexico border after her mother went in search of water during their illegal border crossing. The body of Gurpreet Kaur was found after two Indian women apprehended by US border patrol revealed that a mother and her two children had been with them until a few hours earlier.
Sources said each member of the group possibly paid Rs 25-30 lakh to the agents who arranged their travel to Mexico and promised to help them illegally cross over to the United States.
US President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on all Mexican imports if the country did not put a check on people illegally entering US through the porous borders forced its hand, sources said. A source said the Boeing 747-400 that took off from Mexico's Toluca City International Airport with 311 deportees was expected to land in Delhi at 5.45am on Friday.
18/10/19 Times of India
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