Three, Including Two Immigration Agents, Booked as Mohali Youth Stuck in Mexico. The police have booked three individuals on the charge of duping a Phase 11 resident, Manav, on the pretext of sending him to the US on a work visa. His family has claimed that the youth is stuck in Mexico. There are several Indians who are also stuck in Mexico. To learn the full details about the man stuck in Mexico and the two travel agents booked by police, read the complete article.
Three, Including Two Immigration Agents, Booked as Mohali Youth Stuck in Mexico
A youth from Mohali is stuck in Mexico after he was cheated by an immigration agent who claimed to send him to the US in a legal way in exchange for Rs 30 lakh but is now forcing him to take the Donkey Route. Phase XI resident Mamta Rani, the mother of the stuck man in Mexico, stated that her son Manav is stuck in Mexico City due to the fraud of the agent who was trying to send him to the US through the Donkey Route. She registered a complaint against three people—Rinku from Kansal village in Mohali, Gurjinder Singh from Naniwala village in Ambala, and Makal from Ismailabad village in Kurukshetra.
The complainant, Mamta Rani, stated to the police that Rink, whom she had met through a friend, had offered to send her son Manav to the US in July last year. She said, “Rinku told me that her cousin Gurjinder Singh sent her son to America legally and offered to help Manav too. Gurjinder sought $30 lakh in lieu of sending him abroad. I sold a property in Baltana and paid him $21 lakh. We gave our passports to him, following which he took my son to Mumbai on July 18 last year.” Moreover, she got a call from her son, claiming that he, along with many Indians, was stuck in Mexico as the accused tried to send them through the donkey route. She added, “They made him enter the Panama jungle from where he reached Mexico and is now stuck there. His life is in danger and the accused are seeking ₹25 lakh more. I even requested Gujinder’s partner Mukul to help us, but he threatened me too.”
A case under the Immigration Act and Section 318 (4) of the BNS has been registered at the Phase 11 police station. Rani told the police that when she called Gurjinder, he didn’t answer. After that, Manav later called her and gave her the phone number of another agent, Makal, claiming that he was Gurjinder’s partner. When Rani called Makal, he threatened to come to her house for the ₹25 lakh and his passport was still with Gurjinder.
A US military C-17 transport aircraft carrying 104 Indians deported for illegal immigration landed in Amritsar on Wednesday, marking the first such deportation to India under President Donald Trump’s second-term crackdown. The US is recently deporting 104 illegal immigrants from India, which includes 30 from Punjab, 33 from Haryana and two from Chandigarh.
All three accused, including the two immigration agents, have been booked under Sections 318 (4) (cheating and fraud), 61 (2) (criminal conspiracy) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhaita and Section 13 of the Punjab Travel Professional (Regulation) Act, 2014 at Phase-XI police station (HT File). Last week, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was set up by the Punjab Police to probe illegal human trafficking and illegal emigration after the deportation of 104 migrants from the U.S. to land in Amritsar.
Donkey Route
For those who don’t know what a donkey route is, there are two illegal ways to enter the US. One is directly from the borders of Mexico. The second is the Donkey route, also called the dunki route. It is a life-threatening way to enter the US illegally, as the individual has to cross multiple countries, forests, water bodies and many dangerous turns. The people are deported by changing various vehicles and ways to reach the US. The migrants have to face very tough conditions to go through this way. Another immigrant named Akshay, who wanted to go to the US, was falsely kept in Dubai for two months and the accused asked his family for more money to send him to the US through the dunki route. The agents who facilitated the ‘dunki’ route have been identified for strict punishment.