Arrest of 108 Indian immigration agents reveals all about donkey route to US
India TodayWhen an elderly Sikh man standing in the queue at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport spoke, the CISF officials smelt something was not adding up. In the last six months, IGI Airport Police has arrested 108 fraudulent immigration agents, according to Delhi Police data, reports news agency ANI. POLICE RETURNING TO OLD CASES TO NAB AGENTS Delhi Police have even returned to earlier cases where only passengers were arrested to nail the immigration agents involved. RECORD NUMBER OF INDIANS HELD ON US BORDER IN 2023 Agents send passengers with fake Schengen visas to easily accessible European countries like Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, from where they are put on the donkey route through Central American countries to reach the US border. The police crackdown on the immigration agents, who form the core of the donkey route business, will save many lives that are lost on the deadly routes.
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