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The United States Embassy of India has established interaction with immigration detention centers where about 100 detained Indians are existing for lawlessly entering the country through its U.S.-Mexico border.

According to officials, around 40-45 Indians are at a federal detention center in the Southern American State of New Mexico while 52 Indians, largely Sikhs, and Christians, are held in Oregon.

The Indian Embassy stated that "A consular official has visited the detention facility in Oregon and another one is scheduled to visit the detention facility in New Mexico. We are monitoring the situation."

Among the detainees, most of them are asylum seekers claiming of experiencing ferocity or ill-treatment at their home country.

North American Punjabi Association (NAPA) member Satnam Singh Chahal, believes that thousands of Indians, with the overwhelming majority of them being from Punjab, are languishing in jails in the U.S.

According to data acquired by NAPA through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) more than 27,000 Indians between 2013, 2014 and 2015, were apprehended at the U.S. border. Among them, over 4,000 were women and 350 were children. It is reported, many of them are still languishing in jails.

According to an FOIA request in 2015, more than 900 Indians were in various federal prisons on charges of illegally staying in the country.

Chahal supposed that there is a link of human traffickers, officials and, politicians in Punjab, who support young Punjabis to leave their homes to illicitly enter the U.S. and charge Rs 35-50 lakhs from each individual.

The confined Indians to the most part who were nabbed at the southern border, get prepared in Texas and then shipped out to Pennsylvania's detention center, which is known as a largest detention center in the U.S.

On Wednesday, United States President Donald Trump reversed his arguably move on "Zero tolerance" policy by signing an executive order to halt the immigrant families separation, following far-flung protests against the decision of his administration.

By Sowmya Sangam