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To: JPR who wrote (12378)	7/11/2002 6:53:01 AM
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It costs US $4K to deport one Paki back to Pakiland United States may deport 120 more Pakistanis By Masood Haider NEW YORK, July 10: Another 120 or more Pakistanis arrested by the US Immigration authorities in latest sweeps against illegal immigrants could be deported back to the country within few weeks, a Pakistan Embassy official said on Wednesday. Pakistan Embassy's consular officer, Imran Ali, who co-ordinated with earlier unprecedented deportation of 131 Pakistanis told Dawn that "these people have stark choices. Either they stay in jail for years or go back to freedom in Pakistan." Mr Ali disclosed that in the airlift of 131 Pakistanis two weeks ago the US immigration authorities were unable to bring along pouches of personal belongings of some 40 deportees and said "Now we are in process of obtaining those pouches and returning them to their families in the US or in Pakistan." Mr Ali said that Pakistan's Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi who has a high profile in US has "used all her clout to get the incarcerated Pakistanis back to Pakistan." "We are still working with the US authorities to get these people out of US prisons and back in Pakistan." The US Justice Department in coordination with the Pakistan Embassy secretly chartered a Portuguese jet to deport 131 Pakistani detainees. After accepting bids, the government chose to use a Lockheed L-1011 jet offered by a Portuguese company, Air Luxor, for $342,000. Officials involved in the planning estimated that the cost of the entire operation surpassed $500,000. The detainees were escorted to an airport in Louisiana by INS agents from 22 cities across the United States, including Baltimore.