US to crack down on owners, managers of ‘dunki’ flights

New Delhi, February 21

The US will crackdown on ‘dunki’ flights with the State Department announcing a new visa restriction policy targeting those running charter flights, and ground and maritime transportation companies that enable the illegal migrants from third world countries gain entry into the US.

The new policy expands and supersedes the Nicaragua 3C policy on charter flights issued in November last year, when the charter flights into Nicaragua designed primarily for illegal migrants had become an epidemic.

It targets transportation operations that prey on vulnerable migrants and facilitate irregular migration around the world. “We will continue engaging with governments and the private sector to eliminate this exploitative practice,” said the State Department.