The latest batch of Indians deported by the US included 35 people from Haryana’s Kaithal, Karnal and Kurukshetra districts, officials said on Sunday (October 26, 2025).
A plane carrying illegal immigrants to the U.S. landed at the Delhi airport late on Saturday (October 25) night.
“Most of us were handcuffed while on the plane,” said Naresh Kumar, a deportee who hailed from Kaithal.
Among the deported people, 16 were from Karnal, 14 from Kaithal and five from Kurukshetra. They were brought to their respective districts and handed over to their family members, officials said.
Karnal Superintendent of Police Ganga Ram Punia confirmed that 16 of the deportees hailed from different villages in the district.
According to Kaithal Deputy Superintendent of Police Lalit Kumar, 14 men were brought from Delhi airport to Kaithal Police Lines on Sunday. Among them, four each were from Kalayat and Pundri blocks, two were from Kaithal, three were from Dhand block and one hailed from Guhla block.
The DSP said the men had taken the treacherous ‘donkey route’ to enter the US.
Meanwhile, the immigrants — most of them in the 25-40 age group — expressed dejection at the deportation, saying that they had spent lakhs of rupees by selling off lands, borrowing from relatives and draining out their savings to migrate to the U.S, in pursuit of a better future.
Naresh Kumar, who were among the deportees, said that an agent promised to send him to the U.S. for a fee of ₹42 lakh, but he had to ultimately eke out ₹57 lakh.
“I paid 42 ₹lakh by selling one acre of land. Thereafter, I paid ₹6 lakh that I borrowed on interest. My brother sold some land to raise ₹6.5 lakh. Then my relative paid ₹2.85 lakh in June. A total of ₹57 lakh was paid,” he said.
Admitting that it took him two months on the donkey route to enter the U.S., Naresh Kumar said he would not advice anyone to do so. He spent 14 months in jail before being deported to India.
The Kaithal DSP said police have not received a formal complaint against any agent yet.
He said one of the deportees had a case registered against him under the Excise Act.
The deportees from Kaithal included Naresh Kumar (Taragarh village), Karn Sharma (Peedal), Mukesh Kumar (Aggarwal Colony), Ritik Sharma (Chiranjiv Colony), Sukhbir Singh (Jadaula), Amit Kumar (Habri), Abhishek Kumar (Buchhi), Mohit Kumar (Barta), Ashok Kumar (Pabnawa), Ashish Kumar (Serdha), Damanpreet Singh (Habri), Prabhat Chand (Sisla), and Satnam Singh (Pehrak) and Diamond of Munarehri village.
Earlier this year, American authorities had deported several youths from Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat.
After Donald Trump assumed office as the U.S. President in January this year, the country’s law enforcement agencies have launched a crackdown against illegal immigrants.
Published – October 27, 2025 08:23 am IST
