{"id":29969,"date":"2025-02-08T10:22:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T04:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=29969"},"modified":"2025-04-09T12:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T06:47:28","slug":"donkey-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/donkey-route\/","title":{"rendered":"Donkey Route"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Donkey Route Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Indian deportees from the US, arriving in Amritsar, recently shared their harrowing experiences using the &#8220;donkey route&#8221; for illegal immigration.<\/p>\n<h2>About Donkey Route<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The donkey route is the<strong> route taken by illegal migrants to stealthily cross<\/strong> many <strong>unknown countries<\/strong> with the <strong>help of agents and human traffickers <\/strong>before entering the country of their choice,<strong> l<\/strong>ike the US or the UK.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Named after a Punjabi idiom referring to an arduous, unplanned journe<\/strong>y, it involves <strong>crossing multiple international borders<\/strong>, often through <strong>treacherous terrain,<\/strong> under false promises of legal entry.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Donkey routes typically <strong>involve illegal border crossings via indirect routes<\/strong> with multiple stops in different countries.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>For instance, individuals might obtain a tourist visa for the European Union&#8217;s Schengen Area, allowing free movement across 26 countries, and then illegally enter the UK with the help of &#8220;consultants&#8221; or &#8220;agents.&#8221;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>These agents often charge hefty fees for services ranging from fake documentation to smuggling via shipping containers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Donkey Route FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is donkey root?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It is the route taken by illegal migrants, aided by traffickers, to cross multiple countries before reaching destinations like the US or UK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the Schengen Area?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Schengen Area is a group of European countries that have abolished passport and other border controls between them, allowing for free movement of people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. How many Indian immigrants are there in the world?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. India has over 35 million overseas Indians living across the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/saw-one-die-another-drown-indians-deported-from-us-recall-donkey-route-ordeal\/articleshow\/117967681.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TOI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donkey Route is the route taken by illegal migrants, aided by traffickers, to cross multiple countries before reaching destinations like the US or UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-29969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}