116 illegal Indian immigrants were deported from the United States and arrived at Amritsar airport on Saturday night via a C-17 aircraft. This was the second batch of Indians to be deported under the Donald Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigrants. The recent batch included 65 people from Punjab, 33 from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, two each from Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. One of the deportees, Daljit Singh from Punjab’s Hoshiarpur district, reported they were handcuffed and had their legs chained during the journey back to India. Those from Punjab were transported to their homes in police vehicles around 4:30 am Sunday. Sources indicated that a third plane carrying 157 deportees was expected to land at Am Punjab airport on Sunday. They sought better lives for their families in the US but were duped by agents and were caught at the US border. Many deportees from the first batch that arrived on February 5 had similar stories.
