For ipod download The Lost Village2/5/2024 ![]() “These were moments between life and death. ![]() To evade the patrol boats, our small boat would speed up and start rushing here and there,” says Jitendra. Often security personnel would start chasing us. “To cross the sea by boat, we would leave at night. If it is about Rs 15 lakh for Portugal, it is Rs 25 lakh to go to Germany, and Rs 45 lakh for the US. The charges are albeit different for different countries. ![]() There are agents in every village promising people that they would reach their dream destination. And people in Jind are spending lakhs of rupees for this. The villagers, who pronounce America as “Amrikka” are well aware of one term - 'donkey route’. In Jind district, entire village after village have become deserted. Although it was a jail, it was in America.” 'Rs 15 LAKH FOR PORTUGAL, Rs 45 LAKH FOR US' ![]() When asked about his days in the detention centre, Jitendra dismissively shakes his head and says, “There were people from Haryana to Nepal and even some who spoke Spanish. Jitendra and his group did reach the United States, but after 11 months in a detention centre, he was deported back to India.Ĭrossing the border and getting into the US is his most beautiful memory. There are over 725,000 Indians living illegally in the US, according to a recent study by Pew Research Center. The scale of the smuggling network can be gauged from the fact that Indians constitute the third-largest group of illegal immigrants in the US. While people from Punjab are headed mostly to Canada, youths from Haryana have the United States as their prime offshore destination. ![]()
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