Punjab man deported via Panama: "Wanted to return from Mexico... but donkers forced us to cross the border at gunpoint"

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Among the four Punjab men, the latest to be deported from the US via Panama in a commercial flight that landed in Delhi Sunday, Jatinder Singh, 34, of Patiala district said that even as he had "refused to cross the US-Mexico border" illegally after getting to know about the first batch of deportees landing in Amritsar, he was "forced to do so by donkers at gunpoint." Speaking to The Indian Express, Jatinder Singh said: "We were in Mexican border city Tijuana on February 5, the day the first batch of deportees landed in Amritsar. We also spoke to one of…