WASHINGTON: Four members are considered from one Indian family found frozen to death on the borders of the United States-Canada on Thursday, drawing attention to illegal Indian immigration in the harsh American winter from the North Border, when the US furnts most of the South Border with Mexico .
Families consisting of a man, a woman, a teenager and baby, all have not been identified, reportedly separated from larger Indian groups that make it cross the border in temperatures that reach minus 35 degrees Celsius.
Their body was found in US border meters on the Canadian side.
In a court document submitted in Minnesota, the closest jurisdiction with the tragedy, the authorities said the US border patrol has stopped the white van, 15 passengers driven by a resident of Florida named Steve Shand – described as a smuggler of alleged foreign nationals – less than One mile, south of the border in rural areas.
Two passengers are determined to become an Indian citizen who is not documented.
They then found five more people from India near the border and knew that they hoped to be picked up by someone and they had walked in frozen conditions for about 11 hours.
One group member has a backpack that has children’s items – clothes, diapers, toys.
It turned out he took him for a family of four separates during a snowstorm at night.
The family was then found frozen to death 30 feet from the US border.
“We are very worried that this intersection effort may have been facilitated in several ways and that these individuals, including a baby, are left alone in the midst of a snowstorm, when the weather hovers around minus 35 degrees C, recommend the wind.
These victims do not Only face cold weather but also endless fields, large snow and total darkness, “said Canadian officials to reporters in Manitoba, calling it” the heartbroken tragedy.
“The US lawyer office has accused the Shand with a count of” knowing or ignoring the fact that aliens It has come, entered, or remains in the United States violating the law, after being transported, and moved or tried to transport and move aliens like that.
“Court documents said all foreign nationals understood spoke Gujarati and mostly had English language skills or none.
Hundreds of Indians, most of Punjab and Gujarat, trying to cross into us from the southern border with Mexico often navigate the dry desert in Latin America.
But recently there have been reports of attacks through the north border which are guarded loose where the terrain and weather conditions are completely different.
Although the authorities say Indians are captured warmly dressed, it does not match the brutal winter, which has brought a temperature of minus 11 degrees even for Washington DC.