New Delhi: The U.S. administration has openly started the deportation of immigration illegal Indian citizens in a serious move to suspend the Trump administration. On Monday, a U.S. military C-17 with an unknown number of Indians and permanent residents turned around on the way back to the U.S. In doing so, it has entered the next phase of the administration’s deportation efforts.
Deportation Strategy The Trump administration has vowed to implement what it calls “the largest deportation in American history”. ICE has drawn up an initial list of over 18,000 undocumented Indian nationals among 1.5 million people targeted for deportation as part of this initiative. Indians Immigrants to the U.S. As per the study data compiled by Pew Research Centre, around 725000 Indian illegal migrants are staying in the U.S.
This makes India the third-largest origin of undocumented migrants in the nation after Mexico and El Salvador. India’s Position The Indian government has said it is ready to work with the U.S. on this. India has always been willing to facilitate the “legitimate return” of undocumented Indians to their homeland, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said last month.
Nonetheless, he stressed that India is cross-checking the people who could be deported. TRUMP-MODI TALKSThat January phone call between Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was how Trump disclosed he had discussed the matter with Modi. Trump added that he was sure that Modi “will do the right thing” as far as getting Indian immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally to return to India.
The deportation of Indian nationals is also linked with the broader deportation efforts of the Trump administration. It has also started using flights to expel more than 5,000 immigrants held by U.S. officials in El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California. Migrants have already been flown to Guatemala, Peru, and Honduras, the military said.
Meanwhile, what impact this deportation will have on U.S.-India relations and on the lives of the thousands of Indian immigrants facing the threat of being shipped back to their country remains to be seen. As this matrix unfolds in ambassadorial land, both states then have to course through what is essentially their honouring of previous treaties and positions within the realm of what, at their borders, they actively choose to agree upon.
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