New Delhi:
Amid the Opposition clamour on discussing the deportation of over 100 illegal Indian immigrants by the US, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said that such actions by the US authorities were “not new”, and revealed the data of the deported Indians in the last 15 years. A total of 15,756 illegal Indian immigrants have been deported to India from the US since 2009, the minister told the Rajya Sabha.
“The process of deportation (by the US) is not new… it has been there for years. This is not a policy applicable to only one country. Our focus should be on the crackdown on illegal migrants…We are engaging with the US to ensure deportees are not mistreated,” the minister said.
According to the data shared by Mr Jaishankar, 2019 saw the most number of Indians being deported by the US (2,042), followed by 1,889 in 2020, the year when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world.
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