ED probing 4,200 Indians for immigrating to US without documentation: Report

The Enforcement Directorate is investigating at least 4,200 Indians who have immigrated to the United States in the past three years allegedly without proper documentation, The Indian Express reported on Friday.

The central agency said it has discovered thousands of suspicious transactions linked to Indians going to Canada on an education visa and then immigrating to the United States illegally. The Enforcement Directorate found the pattern while investigating agents in Gujarat and Punjab allegedly involved in sending Indians to the US without the required documents.

This comes against the backdrop of the US deporting more than 100 undocumented Indian migrants on a military aircraft earlier this week. The deportation was part of a wider crackdown by US President Donald Trump’s administration. It was the first military deportation of Indian citizens since Trump returned to office on January 20.

Of those who were deported, 25 were women, 12 were minors and 79 were men. The flight also carried 11 crew members and 45 US officials.

The central agency began its probe on the basis of a case filed by the Gujarat Police in January 2023 in connection with the death of four members of an Indian family. They had frozen to death in 2022 while trying to cross over into the US from Canada.

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