Posted on 03/09/2025 4:43:21 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Gurpreet Singh was handcuffed, his legs shackled and a chain tied around his waist. He was led on to the tarmac in Texas by US Border Patrol, towards a waiting C-17 military transport aircraft.
It was 3 February and, after a months-long journey, he realised his dream of living in America was over. He was being deported back to India. "It felt like the ground was slipping away from underneath my feet," he said.
Gurpreet, 39, was one of thousands of Indians in recent years to have spent their life savings and crossed continents to enter the US illegally through its southern border, as they sought to escape an unemployment crisis back home.
There are about 725,000 undocumented Indian immigrants in the US, the third largest group behind Mexicans and El Salvadoreans, according to the most recent figures from Pew Research in 2022.
Now Gurpreet has become one of the first undocumented Indians to be sent home since President Donald Trump took office, with a promise to make mass deportations a priority.
Gurpreet intended to make an asylum claim based on threats he said he had received in India, but - in line with an executive order from Trump to turn people away without granting them asylum hearings - he said he was removed without his case ever being considered.
About 3,700 Indians were sent back on charter and commercial flights during President Biden's tenure, but recent images of detainees in chains under the Trump administration have sparked outrage in India.
"We sat in handcuffs and shackles for more than 40 hours. Even women were bound the same way. Only the children were free," Gurpreet told the BBC.
Opposition parties protested in parliament, saying Indian deportees were given "inhuman and degrading treatment".
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Boohoo
We can’t get 725,000 cases get tied up in court. This asylum cases must be stopped
Handcuffs. Some would rather die than return so you handcuff all of them. Hard to wipe an ass that way.
“…as they sought to escape an unemployment crisis back home”
…creating an unemployment crises here.
“No-one will try going to the US now through this illegal ‘donkey’ route while Trump is in power,” said Gurpreet.
THAT is the point!
Stay home. Your unemployment problem is not our problem. And not grounds for status here.
Such a heart warming story, you broke the law, our law, see ya
I have legal Indian clients. They worked hard to become US citizens and are proud of it. They pay their taxes and obey the law. F this guy.
How do they treat criminals in India?
I really don't know, but I doubt it is much better and is probably worse.
Had to believe considering the relentless pace at which US based corporations are offshoring work and laying off Americans.
This one definitely earns the:
Well....... Bye
oh yeah? Well I'm outraged these ILLEGAL ALIENS have INVADED my country. Get them the hell out. When you break the law you should expect to get arrested. That means you will get the cuffs put on you. Don't like it? Don't break the law - for example by illegally entering the country. Indians are not "asylum seekers" in the US. Various treaties all agree that legitimate asylum seekers have to apply in the first safe country they come to. They don't get to shop for various countries and they are not entitled to get into whatever country they feel like getting into. India is literally on the other side of the world. There are hordes of safe countries between Indians and the US. Asylum request denied. Get them out.
My tiny wee violin is at the cleaners
Exactly. Message to the rest of the world: You don't get to just dump your excess population into our country. Our country does not exist to serve as your pressure release valve for the problems in your country. Our country is not a dumping ground or an open sewer. Solve your own problems. Don't think you're going to just push all your problems onto us.
What’s that famous libturd expression?
“If it saves one life, it’s worth it”?
A criminalien, one who has ALREADY broken the laws of our country in attempting to usurp the power of We The People’s birthright citizenship, is more likely to do more crime in the future.
This is simple deductive reasoning. Having already violated our laws once, the same justifications, rationalization may be applied to any of a variety of other situations leading to further criminality.
Like the mass murderer who thinks, hey, the first one earned me a death sentence, therefore all the rest are free.
Buh-bye. What we patriots, real Americans, call “common sense” is back.
Oh, and be sure to tell your 1.2 Billion relatives to go through our immigration process the RIGHT way (not the LEFTIST-approved way of the three preceding Bathhouse Barry run dementiacrat administrations).
FLT-bird posted Message to the rest of the world:
<><> You don’t get to just dump your excess population into our country.
<><>Our country does not exist to serve you.
<><>We are not your pressure release valve for the problems in your country.
<><>Our country is not a dumping ground or an open sewer.
<><>Solve your own problems.
<><>Don’t just push all your problems onto us.
On the flip side, I wonder how many nights he spent in a 4 star hotel at taxpayer expense?
Hardest hit........ grandmothers that clean hotel rooms
Asylum is a racket. Unless there is a clear situation where one class of people is suppressed by the government, like Jews in Germany in 1938, the law does not recognize asylum claims. Just because a Brazilian woman says the men from her native country (with whom she will prefer to associate in the U.S.) mistreat women is not a valid claim.
....he was one of thousands to cross continents to enter the US illegally,
as they sought to escape an unemployment crisis back home in India.....
....... sought to escape an unemployment crisis back home?......
Boo-fricking-hoo. The US is not a dumping ground for jobless derelicts.
Solve your own dam problems. Quit pushing your problems on us.
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