GANDHINAGAR , India—Police made six arrests in a crackdown on illegal immigration in response to an Indian family freezing to to death near the the U.S.-Canada border last week. Detained were six people running a travel and tourism company, said police official A.K. Jhala. “We are now trying to nab the human traffickers who managed to send this family and others abroad via illegal channels,” Jhala said. Other Indians, mostly from the western states of Punjab and Gujarat, have been lured into the trip to Manitoba with assurances that smugglers can get them across the border into the United States. The family that died was among several people from the same Indian region who had travelled to Manitoba this month, Jhala said. In Minnesota, authorities have accused a Florida man as the driver of a van that was supposed to pick up a group of as many as 18 people on the U.S. side of the border. The group was on foot and became separated at night in the blinding blizzard. Some were rescued but not before frostbite set in.
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Plastered everywhere. Your future is Canada or the United States. Or so proclaim ads in India villages. Same too in Britain and Australia. Agencies promise to make it all easy.