New Delhi:
The deportation of illegal migrants in the United States is not a new development, and has been going for several years, the Minister of External Affairs, S Jaishankar.
Jaishankar, whose statement was required by the opposition and spoke with Prime Minister Narendra Modi before speaking, told hundreds of deportees every year, for entering or remains illegally in that country. These numbers varied from 530 in 2012 to more than 2,000 in 2019.
“It is of our collective interest to promote legal mobility and discourage illegal movement (Y) is the obligation of all countries to recover their nationals if they are illegally abroad.”
“The deportation process (for the United States), therefore, is not new … has been there for years. This is not a policy applicable to a single country. Our approach should be in the repression of illegal migrants “, said. , also recognizing: “We are committed to the United States to ensure that deportees are not mistreated.”
He also said that US authorities had not restricted women and children, and that “the needs of deported, related to food and other needs, including possible medical emergencies” were served.
Jaishankar’s brief comments were followed by a volley of questions and criticism of opposition banks, including Trinamool deputy Saket Gokhale asking why the Indian government could not have sent a plane, a military or civil letter, to bring back to its citizens in a more human way.
“We are the fifth largest economy in the world … When countries like Colombia, which do not even appear in the Top 10, can you send a plane and bring their citizens back with dignity, which prevents our government from sending a plane?
The reference was specifically Colombia and its separation with the United States On this subject.
The first flights to the South American country were also the US military planes in which the deportees were also chained, which caused furious protests of Colombian president Gustavo Petro, who refused to let more flights of these flights in his country. The United States replied slapping 25 percent of tariffs to Colombia, which later agreed to send aircraft from its Air Force to bring its citizens back.
Today early, the videos shared by the US border patrol. 17. They were then tied to their seats and flew to Amritsar.
Read | “You will be eliminated”: Video of the US border patrol
When landing, the deportees talked about being handcuffed to their seats for long periods and denied the breaks for the bathroom, which led the parliamentarians of the opposition to possible violations of human rights by the United States.
Read | Handcuffed, thrown as boxes: nightmare of the United States of Indian migrants
Among those horrible statements was one of Jaspal Singh, 36, from Gurdaspur de Punjab, who said he paid RS 30 Lakh to an agent who promised a legal step to the United States. Instead, it was trafficked through an illegal and dangerous path that involves traveling through a South American country.
#LOOK | Hoshiarpur, Punjab: an Indian citizen who illegally emigrated to the United States says: “… I lied that they would legally send me, but they sent me by ‘donkey’ … I faced many difficulties along the way. Now that I am from I will work here back here … I will cross the border … pic.twitter.com/gcf2prvloi
– ANI (@ani) February 6, 2025
The form of these deportations triggered the furious response of opposition parliamentarians.
Directed by the leaders of the Congress, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and backed by the head of the Samajwadi party Akhilesh Yadav, the Trinamool Congress, the AAM AADMI party, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, and others, several MP protected with the banners that They shout ‘humans, not the prisoners.
The opposition parliamentarians protest against the treatment of the deportees of the United States.
The administration of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, has increasing seen as the “strong message” of the Republican leader in his hard line. Immigration agenda.
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