India Working with US to Ensure Deported Indians are Not Mistreated, Official Says

Yeah, sure.

Get your people home safe.

That’s fine.

RT:

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.

Jaishankar pointed out that hundreds of Indians who enter the US illegally or overstay their visas are deported every year. These numbers have ranged from 734 in 2009 to 1,889 in 2020 and 1,368 in 2023. “This is not something new, this has been happening for many years,” the minister said.

New Delhi is engaging the US federal government to ensure that “the returning deportees are not mistreated in any manner during the flight,” the diplomat said, adding that India’s focus should be a crackdown on the illegal migration industry.

There is no plan to mistreat anyone.

We just want them out of our country.

That’s all.