Nepal, Feb. 7 -- In January 2022, four members of a family, from the western Indian state of Gujarat, froze to death at the US-Canada border. The couple and their two children had paid a hefty amount to traffickers to be smuggled into the US for what they thought would be a better life. Instead, they perished in the cold.

Jagdish Patel, Vaishaliben and their children Vihangi and Dharmik were lured by the promise of a prosperous life in the US, probably unaware of the perils on the way. They were perhaps unaware of the hostile terrain that America presents to the undocumented.

In the run-up to the US presidential elections, Donald Trump promised to deport such undocumented/unauthorised immigrants, people he terms "illegal". The US has be...