Congress leader P Chidambaram on Saturday said that the arrival of the second US aircraft carrying Indian deportees from the United States would be a “test” for Indian diplomacy. A special plane carrying 120 illegal Indian immigrants deported from the US landed at the Amritsar airport on Saturday night. This will be the second such batch of Indians deported by the Donald Trump administration as part of its crackdown on illegal immigration. The flight is scheduled to land at the airport around 10 pm. Among them, 67 are from Punjab, 33 from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh, two each from Goa, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan, and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
A third plane carrying 157 passengers is expected to land in Amritsar on Sunday (February 16). Of them, 59 were from Haryana, 52 from Punjab, 31 from Gujarat and the rest from other states, according to another list.
“All eyes will be on the US aircraft which will land today in Amritsar bringing back illegal immigrants. Will the deportees be handcuffed and their legs tied with ropes?” Chidambaram wrote on X.
The deportees scheduled to reach India include people who had entered the United States through Mexico and other routes. They also allegedly tore up their passports immediately after entering the US illegally, according to the officials.
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