Hoping for a better future, they left home with aspirations of settling in the US. Families sold land, took loans, and made sacrifices to send them abroad. But instead of new beginnings, they returned to Amritsar on a US military aircraft, deported, disheartened and uncertain about what comes next. Indians deported from the U.S. being escorted by the police as they leave the airport upon their arrival, in Amritsar, early Sunday, Feb. 16 , 2025. (PTI) In the second batch of deportees, 65 were from Punjab, 33 from Haryana, and eight from Gujarat, while Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan had two each. Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir had one deportee each. Sourav, 20, returned to his village Chandiwala in Punjab’s Ferozepur district on Sunday after being caught by US authorities while attempting to cross the border on January 27. He had left home for the US on December 17 last year. “We were kept in a camp (detention centre) for 18 days,” Sourav said, adding that their mobile phones were taken away. “A …