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India reacts to US move to deport illegal immigrants

Speaking in parliament, Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said New Dehi will make sure nationals who are being repatriated are not “mistreated”

By RT International

India’s Minister of External Affairs Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has addressed reports of Indian migrants being mistreated during their deportation from the US. The top diplomat told parliament that such repatriations have been happening for several years and that there “has been no change from past procedure” during the round of deportation initiated by US President Donald Trump.

The minister’s comments came after US Border Patrol (USBP) chief Michael Banks posted a video showing Indian nationals in handcuffs and leg restraints while boarding a deportation aircraft, which went viral on social media, raiding concerns regarding the treatment of migrants.

A US military C-17 transport aircraft carrying 104 Indians landed in Amritsar, Punjab on Wednesday, marking the first such deportation to India under Trump’s second-term crackdown on illegal migration. Upon arrival, local police took the deportees for verification and questioning.

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