Trump’s deportation Crackdown: After US President Donald Trump released a statement to send Illegal immigrants back to their countries, following that, An aircraft, known to be a C-17 military aircraft, brought 205 illegal migrants back to India from the USA. Flight has been deported from Texas amid a crackdown on illegal immigration by Trump. All 205 Indians have been identified and carried in aircraft with one toilet facility on board.
This is the first deportation after US President Trump released statements about illegal immigrants. The plane reported that it would reach India in another 24 hours. Trump gave green signals to the deportation flights last week. Since then it is the first one for India carrying Indian immigrants.
Trump’s Deported illegal immigrants
A US military is deporting migrants to India, the farthest destination of military transport flights for immigrants. Trump has increasingly turned to military for his immigration agenda, including deporting migrants with military aircraft. According to the sources A US official confirmed that C-17 had departed for India with migrants aboard but would take more than 24 hours to arrive back to India. The pentagon has begun providing flights to deport over 5000 illegal immigrants from El paso, Texas and Santiago, California. Military aircraft previously flown migrants to Guatemala, Peru and Honduras The reported cost for last week deportation was $4657 per migrant to Guatemala.
The military’s role in deportations extends beyond border enforcement as it helps facilitate deportations to various countries of the world efficiently and effectively.
The decision to include military aircrafts for deportations is a part of a boarder effort to address the challenges of immigration in USA.
Reaction across the world over Trump’s deportation:
Other nations are considering this a controversial mass deportations from US to India and other countries. the action marked a historic move and questions the immigration policies and treatment of foreign nations in USA.
ahead of the meeting of PM Modi with Donald trump, one of the biggest issue of Flash point has been the illegal immigrants from India to US. Trump crackdown has begun deporting the immigrants back to their respective countries. He is going ahead with what it is said as the biggest deputation exercise. More than 5000 illegal immigrants will be bought back under this deputation.
As per the sources Foreign immigrants numbers are quite staggering when it comes to Indians as it is the farthest country where illegal immigrants to be sent apart from the neighbourhood of USA. Though in Biden Administration the case of deporting happened as well. But in Trump Administration it is reported to be massive.