Six Indian nationals were apprehended by the US border agents on Thursday from a sinking ship when they were trying to enter the US from Canada illegally.
It is often Indians, after Latin American migrants, who are detained at the US borders, for trying to crossover illegally and face additional language and cultural barriers than others.
A South Asian group has sought a probe into the death of a six-year-old Indian girl, whose body was found along the US-Mexico border in Arizona, alleging that militarisation of the area and rejection of migrants attempting to cross at the entry ports have created an inhuman environment.
Gurupreet Kaur, the six-year-old Indian girl whose body was found near a remote and deserted US-Mexico border died of heat stroke after her mother left her to go in search of water, US officials said Friday as they blamed people smugglers for the tragedy.
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