Sikh Who Entered US Illegally Through Mexico To Be Deported To India:- As the Trump administration continues its crackdown on illegal immigrants, a 39-year old Sikh, Baljit Singh who entered the US illegally through Mexico, over a decade ago, will be deported to India.

Singh’s attorney said, being a Sikh, he had fled religious persecution in Punjab where he feared for his life. He was required to go for periodic check-ins with immigration officials and during one such visit early this month, he was told he will be deported to India after 90 days. Singh has no criminal history and is a father of two children who are US citizens. Singh has been released with an ankle monitor after a week of detention and will have to return to India at the end of three months.

“With this new administration, the rules have changed everybody goes,” his wife, Kate Singh told a leading news channel. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a father and haven’t done anything to break the law, or if you’re a criminal.Everybody’s going. It’s just a huge cleanup,” she said.

President Donald Trump came into office. The estimated 11 million people living in the US illegally will be expelled, who he says steal “American jobs and fuel crime”.

Most are from Mexico, and many of them have been here for decades, raising families, owning homes and businesses. Singh has fought a lengthy legal battle to stay in the country. A judge had denied his asylum case.

The report quoted Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokeswoman Lori Haley as saying that “over the last 11 years at multiple levels of the Department of Justice’s immigration court system, Singh’s immigration case has undergone exhaustive review”.

“The courts have consistently held that Singh does not have a legal basis to remain in the US,” Haley said in the report.

Haley said even though Singh has no criminal history, the head of the agency has made it clear that anyone in the country living the county illegally “may be subject to arrest, detention and, if found removable by the immigration courts, as Singh was, removed from the United States.”

Singh’s attorney Elias Shamieh said in the report that as long as he checked in with his immigration officer every six months, he was allowed to stay in the country.

“The human element has been stripped from the immigration service as it stands right now - there is no compassion,” Shamieh said.

“It’s a really destructive approach to the immigration laws.” Singh now must return to India before he can begin the paperwork to return legally, a process that could take anywhere from six months to two years.

He would have to wait 10 years before he can return if the paperwork is denied. Singh’s wife questioned without her husband, how she would survive financially. Singh is a gas station manager and is the sole breadwinner of the household. “I’m all for criminals, drug dealers and troublemakers to be sent back,” Kate Singh wrote in a blog post.

“...They are scooping up the good with the bad in their nets just like the destruction that takes place with net fishing. The inedible fish and precious coral get swooped up with the wanted fish. Habitats are destroyed with these nets,” she wrote.

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