American military plane transporting deported Indians due to arriving at Punjab

An American deportation flight that transports Indian citizens accused of illegally entering the country must be illegally to the State of Punjab.

The American military plane that transported the deportees left Texas on Tuesday night. It is directed to the city of Amritsar, where the authorities say they have established measures to process them.

President Donald Trump has made the mass deportation of undocumented foreigners a key policy. It is said that the United States identified about 18,000 Indian nationals who believes they entered illegally.

Trump has said that the prime minister of India, Narendra Modi, had assured him that the country “would do the right” by accepting US deportations.

The authorities in Punjab say that they have established special counters to receive the deportees, adding that individuals would be treated in a “friendly” way.

The journalists have begun to meet outside the police barricades near an Indian Air Force building in Amritsar.

The plane with 104 deported on board is ready to land at 1:00 p.m. local time (07: 30gmt). They will be processed separately from regular passengers before addressing buses to their states of origin, including Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat.

Trump is using more and more US military planes to return people to their countries of origin.

However, deportation flights to India are not new. In the Fiscal Year of the USA 2024, which ended in September, more than 1,000 Indian nationals had been repatriated by commercial flights and charter.

In October, the United States immigration and customs control (ICE) deported more than 100 Indian nationals who lacked legal reasons to remain in the United States on a chartered flight, part of a growing trend in removals to India .

That flight that transported adult men and women was also routed to Punjab, near the places of origin of many deportees. A precise breakdown from cities of origin was not provided.

Much of the migration of India seems to originate in the state dominated by SIJ of Punjab and neighboring Haryana, who has traditionally seen people migrating abroad. The other source of origin is Gujarat, the state of origin of Modi.

“That has been part of a constant increase in the removals of the United States of Indian citizens in recent years, which corresponds to a general increase in the meetings we have seen with Indian nationals in recent years too,” Royce Bernstein Murray, deputy secretary of the United States National Security Department told a media information In October.

The meetings refer to cases in which non -citizens are arrested by US authorities while trying to cross the country’s borders with Mexico or Canada.

A total of 5,477 Indians have been deported from the United States for ICE between 2018 and 2023, according to Official figures. More than 2,300 were deported in 2020, the highest in recent years.

The number of undocumented Indian immigrants in the United States is disputed.

New data from PEW Research Center Estimates 725,000 people from 2022, which makes them the third largest group after Mexico and El Salvador.

In contrast, the Institute of Migration Policy (MPI) places the figure in 375,000, classifying India in fifth place among countries of origin. Unauthorized immigrants represent 3% of the American population and 22% of the population born abroad.

In November, 1.44 million non -citizens in the US Ice document, accessed by Fox News.

The highest numbers come from Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Mexico, each with more than 200,000 people waiting for deportation.

China has 37,908 cases, while India has 17,940 on the list.

The ICE document says that the United States government expects foreign nations to accept its citizens but face resistance.

Currently, ICE classifies 15 countries as “non -cooperative”, including China, India, Iran, Russia and Venezuela. Other eleven, such as Iraq, Nicaragua and Vietnam, are considered at risk of breach.

“The factors that could lead to a country to be classified as not very cooperative to include ICE elimination efforts by refusing to conduct consular interviews when necessary; refusing to accept letter elimination missions; comparison with the moving and/or unacceptable average time from the order of final elimination executable to the elimination;

The spokesman of the Indian Foreign Ministry, Randhir Jaiswal, recently said that India was “It firmly opposes illegal migration, especially because it is linked to other forms of organized crime”.

“As part of the migration and mobility cooperation of India-United States, both parties are involved in a process to deter illegal migration, while creating more ways for the legal migration of India to the United States. We are eager for Continue this cooperation.

“At the same time, the government of India would need to make the required verification, including the nationality of the people in question before being deported to India.”

Last year, under the former president of the United States, Joe Biden, 271,000 migrants were deported to 192 countries.