This thug, who came to Canada in 2010 and filed for refugee status, faces deportation to India but trying to stay back as his second wife has sponsored him
Web Desk
TORONTO: Simranjit “Shally” Singh of Brampton, who faces deportation to India after failing to get asylum in Canada for his family, became a human smuggler to mint money as he helped people from India cross into the US via Canada.
This man, who boasted of having helped over 1,000 people from India to cross into the US from Canada, has been indicted by a New York court with nine counts of human smuggling.
Singh, who was arrested last summer and extradited to the US last Thursday, took $5,000- $35,000 per person to smuggle them into the US.
He would pay the locals between $2,000 and $3,000 per person to smuggle them across the St Lawrence river running through Akwesasne territory.
His nine-count indictment in the U.S. Federal Court for the Northern District of New York says Singh was the “primary organizer” of human smuggling through Akwesasne Mohawk territory which spans Quebec in Canada and New York state in the US.
He was nabbed on the basis of his surveillance, Facebook messages and his links to four failed smuggling attempts between March 2020 and April 2022.
When COVID closed borders in March 2020, Singh used Facebook massenger to offer a Native Indian woman $4,000 to smuggle three Indian nationals into New York state.
“Ok they cross (St. Lawrence) river,” Singh texted the woman on Facebook massenger on March 17, 2020.
“Yes,” replied the woman as she picked them up and dropped them at Great View Motel in Fort Covington in New York.
“Dropped,” she texted him back.
This thug arrived with his then wife and one child in Montreal from India in 2010 and filed refugee claims. His mother and another child, who came later from India, also filed refugee claims.
After their refugee claims were rejected, Singh and his family could not deported to India as the Indian consulate refused to provide them travel documents.
Singh is now trying to stay in Canada after marrying his second wife who has sponsored him.
