India probes ‘illegal’ immigration after Canada border tragedy – By Reuters Staff (Al Jazeera) / January 27, 2022
Police in Gujarat arrest six people in crackdown after four Indians were found frozen to death near the US-Canada border.
Indian police have arrested six people in a crackdown on “illegal” immigration after four Indians were found frozen to death near the border between the United States and Canada last week, officials said.
Hundreds of Indians, mostly from the western states of Punjab and Gujarat, attempt to cross the US-Canada border each year, braving harsh weather conditions in search of a better life and job opportunities in the West.
Police in Gujarat on Thursday said they identified the four, belonging to a single family, after law enforcement agencies on the border provided photographs of passports and other belongings.
“We are now trying to nab the human traffickers who managed to send this family and others abroad via illegal channels,” police official A K Jhala said in the state capital of Gandhinagar.
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