{"id":41421,"date":"2022-02-06T16:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/06\/mind-blowing-tragedy-deaths-of-indian-family-at-us-canada-border-put-visa-sales-under-scrutiny"},"modified":"2022-02-06T16:00:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T07:00:20","slug":"mind-blowing-tragedy-deaths-of-indian-family-at-us-canada-border-put-visa-sales-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41421","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Mind-blowing tragedy\u2019: deaths of Indian family at US-Canada border put visa sales under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Indians embark on often treacherous journeys to North America through agents who are now the focus of anti-human trafficking officers<\/p>\n<p>The signs are painted on every wall and hang from every lamp-post of this small Gujarat village. \u201cEasy Canada visa, student and immigration,\u201d states one. \u201cStudy in Canada, free application, spouse can apply,\u201d claims another.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, in Dingucha, a village in rural west India, almost every house now has a family member either in Canada or the USA. It was a fact they used to proudly shout from the rooftops; but now, the village has fallen silent. Ask people about their relatives in north America \u2013 particularly the journey they took to get there \u2013 and they shrug their shoulders and walk off nervously.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/06\/mind-blowing-tragedy-deaths-of-indian-family-at-us-canada-border-put-visa-sales-under-scrutiny\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Indians embark on often treacherous journeys to North America through agents who are now the focus of anti-human trafficking officersThe signs are painted on every wall and hang from every lamp-post of this small Gujarat village. \u201cEasy Canada visa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2884,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-india"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2884"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41422,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41421\/revisions\/41422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}