CHANDIGARH: 112 Indians deported from United States are expected on a special US Air Force plane C17 Globemaster III which will land late tonight at the Amritsar International Airport.
Sources said that the plane from the US will land at Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport in Amritsar around 11.30 pm today.
Among the 112 deportees from the US, 31 will be from Punjab, 44 from Haryana, 33 from Gujarat, two from Uttar Pradesh and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
Yesterday late night a US military plane carrying 117 illegal Indian immigrants, including 65 from Punjab, landed at the Amritsar airport around 11.30 pm. On February 5, the first flight from US landed at Amritsar with 104 deportees on board. In both these instances, the deportees were handcuffed and their legs were chained.
This is part of an ongoing crackdown by US immigration authorities on individuals who entered the country illegally or overstayed their visas.
Meanwhile, Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann yesterday asked Union Government not to make the holy city of Amritsar as a “deport centre.”
He had on Saturday evening visited the Amritsar International Airport ahead of the arrival of the second plane bringing 117 illegal Indian deportees from the US as this was the second such batch of Indians to be deported by the Donald Trump administration as part of its promised crackdown on illegal migration.
"Do not make our holy city (Amritsar) a deport centre,” Mann had said and added that the state government has made transportation arrangements for taking deportees hailing from Punjab to their respective hometowns.