Posted on 03/14/2025 10:13:58 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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.
US Border Patrol released the images in an online video with a bombastic choral soundtrack and the warning: "If you cross illegally, you will be removed."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
He says that like it's a bad thing.
A C-17?
Were there no C-47s available?
Apu can go back to India. They didn't like the Raj? You broke it; you bought it, Apu.
It’s “sparking outrage in India” like Americans really shive a git.
Buh-bye Gurpreet. Go make India great again instead.
While you’re at it, spread the word: America is closed for repairs! And let me tell you, after 12 of the last 16 years being total leftist insanity, it’s going to take a while to fix it all.
People in the India were outraged.
Odd, sneak into India with fake documents and get
“According to a TOI report, for those using forged travel documents, the minimum jail term will be two years, which may extend to seven years, along with a fine ranging from Rs 1 lakh to Rs 10 lakh. Currently, the maximum punishment for entering India with a forged passport is eight years in prison and a fine of up to Rs 50,000.”
Put him on nightly TV news for everyone to see.
do same in Haiti, Venezuela, and all of Central America.
I don’t care about their personal story or the BBC story. They ALL need to be booted. We need 10 million gone by Midterms. Yes, impossible on paper but go big is the Trump MAGA way. Other Presidents kicked out millions and a good portion kick themselves out.
Even this "outrage" is pure BBC propaganda
Indians are a very practical people. If corrupt governments are giving out something, they'll do their damndest to get a share. But they also fully understand the rules of "FAFO," and don't like gangsters or criminals as well.
“...recent images of detainees in chains under the Trump administration have sparked outrage in India.”
your feelings don’t matter to me.
guy played a lottery that has winners and penalties
One wonders where the author of this tear-jerking story, Yogita Limaye, was born.
Which is probably a death sentence. your not likely to live long in an indian prison.
When back home, he can ask his BRICS friends for help.
There is probably a real reason this dude had to be put in chains but they aren’t going to report that.
We aren’t open for welfare for foreign citizens.
Those asylum and refugee laws need a good revamp.
Very few entered this country that way before.
Chains
by the Cookies (1962) and the hit cover by the Beatles.
Chains, well, I can’t break away from these chains
Can’t run around, ‘cause I’m not free
Whoa, oh, these chains of love won’t let me be, yeah
Please believe me when I tell you
Your lips are sweet
I’d like to kiss them
But I can’t break away from all of these
Interesting that the BBC never asked why he was refused admission by the UK and Canada.
Did someone forget to ask your permission?
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