An Indian Uber driver, who helped illegal immigrants to enter US from the Canadian border, has been jailed for an year in the US. The accused identified as Jaswinder Singh, 30, was sentenced by Judge David Hurd at a federal court in Utica, New York state on Thursday and he faces possible deportation, federal prosecutor Grant Jaquith said.
Singh admitted to picking up several illegal border crossers between January and May 2019 for payments and transporting them inland, the Justice Department said. He was arrested last May when he went to spot near the Canadian border to pick up for a payment of $2,200 an adult and a child who had illegally crossed over. Only a small number of people cross over illegally from Canada but they are increasing, almost doubling to 963 in 2018 from the previous year, according to US government data.
