The case is not connected to the deaths last week of eight people, including four Indians, who were attempting to illegally cross into the United States from Canada through Akwesasne.īut it sheds light on alleged human smuggling through the territory that straddles the Canada-U.S. Simranjit (Shally) Singh, 40, appeared in an Albany, N.Y., court Friday to face six counts of alien smuggling for profit and three counts of conspiracy to commit alien smuggling for profit, a day after he was extradited from Canada. Federal prosecutors in the United States say an Indian man living in Canada was paid thousands of dollars to smuggle other Indian nationals into the United States through the Akwesasne Mohawk reserve.
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