India, Feb. 5 -- Six of the 30 Punjabi migrants deported from the US on Wednesday belong to Bholath sub division of Kapurthala district in the NRI belt of Doaba.

The six deportees include a 10-year-old boy. The others are Lovepreet Kaur, 30, from Bholath town, Vikramjit Singh from Dograwala village, Gurpreet Singh from Tarf Behbal Bahadur village besides Aman Kumar, 27, and Harpreet Singh, 19, both from Bariar village.

Doaba accounts for 14 deportees with six belonging to Kapurthala district, four from Jalandhar and two each from Hoshiarpur and Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar.

They were brought back by the US Air Force plane with 104 Indian migrants that landed in Amritsar on Wednesday afternoon. Thousands of undocumented migrants have been...