India, Feb. 7 -- Lovepreet Kaur, a 30-year-old from Bholath in Kapurthala district in Punjab, left for the United States with her 10-year-old son on January 2, carrying dreams of reuniting with her husband, who has been living there for the past few years. But those dreams were crushed when US border authorities caught them trying to cross into the country through Mexico.

The family had put everything on the line for this journey. According to them, they paid Rs.1.05 crore to agents who promised a safe passage to the US through the treacherous 'donkey or 'dunki' route' across Latin America.

Back home, her in-laws, who own nearly six acres of farmland, had travelled to Amritsar to receive her and the child on Wednesday. But the shock of ...