WASHINGTON: The Indian undertaking in the USA has established touch with two immigration detention centres where nearly 100 Indians, mostly from Punjab, are detained for illegally getting into the country via its southern border.
According to officers, round 40-45 Indians are at a federal detention centre within the Southern American State of New Mexico while 52 Indians, mostly Sikhs and Christians, are held in Oregon.
The Indian Embassy in a statement stated it has established contacts with each the detention amenities.
"A consular official has visited the detention facility in Oregon and another one is scheduled to visit the detention facility in New Mexico. We are monitoring the situation," the the statement stated.
More than a dozen of them are being held on the New Mexico centre for months. And the rest of the Indians had been brought to this detention centre about a week ago.
Most of the detainees on the federal amenities are inquiring for asylum claiming that they "experienced violence or persecution" in their house nation.
Satnam Singh Chahal, of the North American Punjabi Association (NAPA), believes that thousands of Indians, with vast majority of them being from Punjab, are languishing in jails in the USA.
According to knowledge bought by way of NAPA via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) between 3 years of 2013, 2014 and 2015, greater than 27,000 Indians had been apprehended at the USA border. Of these, over 4,000 had been ladies and 350 had been youngsters.
Many of them, it is reported, are nonetheless languishing in jails.
According to a FOIA request in 2015, greater than 900 Indians had been in more than a few federal prisons on fees of illegally staying within the nation.
Chahal alleged that there is a nexus of human traffickers, officers and politicians in Punjab, who inspire young Punjabis to depart their properties to illegally enter the USA and charge Rs 35-50 lakhs from every individual.
"Human trafficking is a criminal act which affects the global community and consequently Punjabis are too victims of this episode. The Punjabis enthusiasm to migrate to affluent countries in search of greener pastures has given the traffickers to exploit them," he stated.
"Using different modus operandi, people of different back grounds involved in human trafficking and often put the lives of their clients in considerable danger. Failure to reach their promised destination leads to deportation, exploitation, indebtedness, imprisonment and even death," he rued.
He advised the Punjab government to strictly put into effect human trafficking regulations which have been handed by way of the State Assembly in recent times.
According to immigration attorney Akansha Kalra the biggest collection of Indians who enter the USA illegally are from Punjab and Gujarat.
Sharing her experience from her apply at an match organised by way of the Hindu American Foundation early this week, Kalra stated that young Indians in 20s are crossing the border.
"They pay around Rs 35-40 lakhs to human smugglers just to help them cross the border. With this kind of administration's policy, hopefully they would get deterred by it. But so far they keep on coming," she stated all through fourth annual HAF Policy Conference at the USA Capitol.
"They (Punjabi boys) use the same script that was used in the 80s," she stated, narrating the experience of her visits to this type of detention centres in Pennsylvania, which has a number of of unlawful Indians being detained.
Most of these Indians get nabbed on the Mexico border, get processed in Texas after which shipped out to the Pennsylvania detention centre, which is one of the greatest of such detention amenities in the USA.
President Donald Trump the day past reversed his arguable choice on immigration by way of signing an executive order to end the separation of immigrant families on the US-Mexico border, following widespread protests towards the move of his management to separate youngsters from their parents who illegally enter the country.
According to officers, round 40-45 Indians are at a federal detention centre within the Southern American State of New Mexico while 52 Indians, mostly Sikhs and Christians, are held in Oregon.
The Indian Embassy in a statement stated it has established contacts with each the detention amenities.
"A consular official has visited the detention facility in Oregon and another one is scheduled to visit the detention facility in New Mexico. We are monitoring the situation," the the statement stated.
More than a dozen of them are being held on the New Mexico centre for months. And the rest of the Indians had been brought to this detention centre about a week ago.
Most of the detainees on the federal amenities are inquiring for asylum claiming that they "experienced violence or persecution" in their house nation.
Satnam Singh Chahal, of the North American Punjabi Association (NAPA), believes that thousands of Indians, with vast majority of them being from Punjab, are languishing in jails in the USA.
According to knowledge bought by way of NAPA via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) between 3 years of 2013, 2014 and 2015, greater than 27,000 Indians had been apprehended at the USA border. Of these, over 4,000 had been ladies and 350 had been youngsters.
Many of them, it is reported, are nonetheless languishing in jails.
According to a FOIA request in 2015, greater than 900 Indians had been in more than a few federal prisons on fees of illegally staying within the nation.
Chahal alleged that there is a nexus of human traffickers, officers and politicians in Punjab, who inspire young Punjabis to depart their properties to illegally enter the USA and charge Rs 35-50 lakhs from every individual.
"Human trafficking is a criminal act which affects the global community and consequently Punjabis are too victims of this episode. The Punjabis enthusiasm to migrate to affluent countries in search of greener pastures has given the traffickers to exploit them," he stated.
"Using different modus operandi, people of different back grounds involved in human trafficking and often put the lives of their clients in considerable danger. Failure to reach their promised destination leads to deportation, exploitation, indebtedness, imprisonment and even death," he rued.
He advised the Punjab government to strictly put into effect human trafficking regulations which have been handed by way of the State Assembly in recent times.
According to immigration attorney Akansha Kalra the biggest collection of Indians who enter the USA illegally are from Punjab and Gujarat.
Sharing her experience from her apply at an match organised by way of the Hindu American Foundation early this week, Kalra stated that young Indians in 20s are crossing the border.
"They pay around Rs 35-40 lakhs to human smugglers just to help them cross the border. With this kind of administration's policy, hopefully they would get deterred by it. But so far they keep on coming," she stated all through fourth annual HAF Policy Conference at the USA Capitol.
"They (Punjabi boys) use the same script that was used in the 80s," she stated, narrating the experience of her visits to this type of detention centres in Pennsylvania, which has a number of of unlawful Indians being detained.
Most of these Indians get nabbed on the Mexico border, get processed in Texas after which shipped out to the Pennsylvania detention centre, which is one of the greatest of such detention amenities in the USA.
President Donald Trump the day past reversed his arguable choice on immigration by way of signing an executive order to end the separation of immigrant families on the US-Mexico border, following widespread protests towards the move of his management to separate youngsters from their parents who illegally enter the country.
Nearly 100 Indians held at 2 detention centres in US, India establishes contact
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