Posted on 10/29/2025 8:55:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Several illegal Indian migrant workers who were recently deported from the US have recounted their ordeal to BBC Punjabi, describing humiliation, debt and shattered dreams.
At least 54 men, who had entered the US through the "donkey route" - often used by traffickers to facilitate illegal crossings - landed in the country's capital Delhi on Sunday.
Aged between 25 and 40 years, all of them are from the northern state of Haryana and have since returned home, police said. The Indian government has not commented on their deportation.
But the action comes amid an intense crackdown on illegal immigrants under President Donald Trump's administration, with more than 2,400 Indians sent back from the US just this year.
Several men, especially from South Asian countries, undertake arduous journeys to go to the US and Europe via the so-called "donkey route", also called the "dunki route", which involves crossing through multiple borders.
Many sell land and take loans to fund their journeys in search of a better life, or to support their families back home.
According to India's foreign ministry, some 2,417 Indians were deported from the US between January and September 2025.
As of 2022, an estimated 725,000 undocumented Indian immigrants were in the US, making them the third-largest group after those from Mexico and El Salvador, according to data from the Pew Research Center.
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“As of 2022, an estimated 725,000 undocumented Indian immigrants were in the US”
Say it with me ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL, ILLEGAL.
They are here illegally, stealing jobs, taxes resources, etcetera from actual American citizens and as such are criminals, all of whom must be deported.
India is a Giant Garbage Dump so go back to India and get into waste management you’ll be RICH
breaks one’s heart, don’t it?
They can help make India a better place.
“ Punjabi, describing humiliation, debt and shattered dreams.”
Why isn’t he humiliated at sneaking into another country illegally? At least he should be humiliated that he was so stupid as to spend all that money to be a criminal.
2417 deported is just 0.33 percent of the 725,000 total Indian illegals. They need to step this up greatly.
Hopes dashed for some are Voters dreams come true for Americans.
So they crossed the border illegally and got sent home and the BBC’s take is what a hardship it is on them. So what’s the answer BBC? No border enforcement? Let the entire world come into the US? Give them all public assistance? Where was this article when Obama and Clinton where deporting illegals?
I think they are less likely to engage in flagrant gang activity like the Salvadoreans and Venezuelans so they a somewhat lower priority at the moment unless they are truckers.
Their time is up.
It’s too expensive to deport illegals by air. They should be loaded onto container ships - in chains for the safety of the crew, and leave for a ‘world cruise’. Then dropped off at various locations.
I dont care what they say as long they stand in another country to say it.
Why don’t they interview all the unemployed STEM graduates?
Let them all live in the BBC offices.
That, right there. 👆👆
For years, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) relentlessly
pushed the false narrative of a “catastrophic truck driver shortage”
<><>claiming 60,000 positions went unfilled,
<><>supply chains were teetering on collapse—
<><>the ATA effectively manipulated public policy
<><>so as to flood the trucking business with cheap, under-qualified “visa labor.”
This fabricated ATA crisis wasn’t about solving real problems;
<><>it was a tool to lower standards,
<><>suppress wages,
<><>and prioritize big carriers over safety and sustainability.
Now in a stunning reversal at their 2025 Management Conference, the ATA did a blatant CYA——executing a hard pivot——— ditching the blanket shortage claim and re-framing it as a “shortage of quality drivers.”
Boo hoo!
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