At least 68 Indian nationals have been taken into custody at a detention center near Seattle in the US state of Washington for allegedly crossing into the country illegally, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) department has said.
Of them, about half were detained in the last one month while they tried to sneak illegally into the United States from across the border, said Satnam Singh Chahal, the director of US-based North American Punjabi Association (NAPA) that obtained the information from the ICE, The Times of India reported on Sunday.
At present 68 Indians are in custody at its contract detention center in Tacoma, the ICE’s western regional spokesperson Virginia Kice said.
Majority of them were taken into custody this year and about half were arrested in the last 30 days, she said.