After spending a heavy amount of money and sneaking through three countries, a family from Mehsana witnessed their dreams go down the drain as they were forced to return home after a whole year of the illegal journey to enter the US.
The family of four left the country on March 4, 2021, traveled through three countries: UAE, Turkey, and Tanzania but had to turn back as the agent they had consulted was held by the Ahmedabad police while investigating the illegal immigration cases in Gujarat. The investigation into these human smuggling rackets will widen its scope once the US Federal Bureau of Investigation will visit Gandhinagar on the 22nd of March. The FBI will meet CID officials and are going to inquire about the death of a family of four from the Dingucha village where it all started.
They are to investigate more such rackets that have been busted in the North of Gujarat. The agents usually use the Canada, Turkey, and Mexico routes for illegal immigration into the States
The Mehsana family was trying to reach the States through Turkey. The Police has identified them as Rajendra Patel, 40, his wife Varsha, 38, their kids Diya, 16, and Prince, 14. They originally are from Tundali village and kicked off on their journey on March 4, 2021. They decided to go to the US after agent Haresh Patel approached them in the year 2019. Rajendra’s elder brother had gone to the US decade ago. Rajendra was a Class 8 dropout and he and his family were very much desperate to go to the US through any means. He sent his family to Dubai, where they took a halt, where they stayed in a flat till 23rd April 2021, and then to Turkey on 24th April 2021. The family was supposed to go on to Mexico where they were further to be escorted by another agent but due to some problem in Mexico, the family had to take a long pause till late November. The family was then sent to Tanzania later, where they stayed till March and then discovered that their agent got arrested. Later after a few requests to their family in India their tickets were arranged and were brought back to India successfully.
