Among thousands of immigrants waiting for the US Supreme Court to decide whether and when to lift pandemic-era restrictions that have prevented many from seeking asylum, a 32-year-old man from Gandhinagar district fell to his death while trying to scale the “Trump wall” at the US-Mexico border.
Brijkumar Yadav, his wife, and three-year-old, were among 40 people, mainly from north Gujarat, who were supposed to cross the border from Tijuana in Mexico to San Diego in US on Wednesday. Yadav held his kid in his arms and scaled the concrete wall that has metal plates and barbed wires. His wife too scaled the wall. Yadav and his child fell on the Tijuana side, while his wife fell 30 feet on the San Diego side. The child escaped with minor injuries.
Yadav was a resident of Telephone Colony in Borisana village, barely 14 km from Dingucha village from where nearly half its people have immigrated to the US.
Gujarat police and other agencies have launched a hunt for human traffickers after Canadian police found Dingucha residents Jagdish Patel, 35, his wife, Vaishali, 33, and their two children frozen to death in an empty field on January 19. They died just 12 m from the US border.
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