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Serious man wears baseball cap backwards, blue, red check shirt, black track pants, stands in front of building, motorbikes.

Harjit Singh sits with his mother Gurmeet Kaur on a raised, flat, wide platform outside their family home in the sunshine.

A bearded man wears a blue turban in a framed close up picture that has text with his name and date of death underneath.

"I thought I'd spent a few years there and come back be comfortable here,"
Harjit said.
Children and animals wander over a sealed road that runs between the backs of two rows of buildings with power line overhead.

A graphic map shows a journey from India to the southern US, via Africa and South America.

"We had to trek up seven mountains as high as mansions with kit on our backs,"
Harjit said.

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"They locked me in a room and cranked up the AC. I was there for 24 hours. My body went blue."
A man in khaki uniform, seen through mesh inside a van

"When I found out, I cried and screamed in pain."
Gurpreet Kaur interlaces her fingers over her knees as she sits on a couch inside her home.

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Surinder Kumar crouches as he poses with a group of male migrants gathered near a gold coach.

Four men sit on the ground sharing food outside a tent while a fifth man takes a selfie of the group.

"We went through so much just to be sent back. I didn't achieve anything."

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