311 Indians land in Delhi after being deported from Mexico
NEW DELHI: More than 300 Indians, including one woman, who were deported by Mexican immigration authorities for illegally entering the country to sneak into the US, landed here on Friday morning, their American dream of a better life and jobs in the US shattered.
The 311 Indians were sent back to India on a chartered flight and were accompanied by 74 Mexican officials, officials here said.
Carrying stories of walking through jungles and spending
lakhs of rupees to achieve their dreams only to be ignominiously caught and sent back, they landed back home after a journey that
lasted more than 36 hours. The
flight itself was 11 hours, first from Mexico to Spain, and then on to the Indian capital.
“We landed around 5 am , and the formalities took several hours. We could exit the airport only around 1 pm,” Jashanpreet Singh, one of the deportees, said.
Most of those deported are from Punjab and Haryana.
According to a press release issued by Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) on Wednesday, the Indian nationals, who did not have a condition of regular stay in the country were deported from the Toluca City International Airport on a Boeing 747 aircraft to New Delhi.
The deportees, who were accompanied by Federal Migration agents as well as members of the National Guard, were gathered in the Acayucan Migration Station in Veracruz to carry out their identification and subsequent transfer, the statement said.