India, Feb. 16 -- An aircraft carrying the second batch of Indian nationals who illegally migrated to the US landed in Amritsar this afternoon. Among the dozens of deportees on this flight was a man named Sourav, a Punjab native whose family sold land and spent over Rs.45 lakh to send him to the United States. He was caught a couple of hours after he entered the country illegally.

Sourav spoke to news agency ANI about how he reached the US and his subsequent deportation from the land of dreams.

"I entered America on January 27," Sourav, a resident of Ferozepur, told ANI. He explained that he entered the US through Mexico. The border was in a mountainous area and it took the group two to three days to cross over to the US, where they wer...