Karnal, Feb. 7 -- We were handcuffed and were told that we were being shifted to another camp. There were others with me from the camp where I was detained. Confusion and anxiety gave way to shock when a large military plane came into view. Eventually the realisation dawned on us that we were being deported.

This is the journey of Kurukshetra's Robin Handa, who was among the 33 deportees belonging to Haryana and like many others who failed to realise his "American dream".

A native of Ismailabad village of the district on Ambala-Hisar Road, 27-year-old's family spent nearly " Rs.42-43 lakh after selling 1-1.5 acre of farmland" with the hope that their son, who had completed a course in computers from an Industrial Training Institute, wou...