An American military plane transporting illegal Indian immigrants landed in the northern city of Amritsar in India on Wednesday, a Reuters The witness said, deporting an un specified number of people as part of the immigration agenda of President Donald Trump.
Some local media reported that the flight was bringing 205 people back, while others put the number in 104, and that they were mainly from the northern state of Punjab, where Amritsar and the western state of Gujarat are located.
The Trump administration has increasingly resorted to the military to help carry out their immigration agenda, using military airplanes to deport migrants and open military bases to house them.
Although illegal Indian immigrants have been deported home by previous administrations of the United States, it is the first time that Washington uses a military plane for this purpose. It is also the farther destination so far for such flights using a military plane.
Reuters On Tuesday, the C-17 plane with migrants on board had gone to India, but it would not arrive for at least 24 hours. The flight did not appear on the public flight trackers, but the local news television channels showed that the plane rolled after it landed in Amritsar.
Migration has been among the key issues discussed by India and the United States since Trump took over last month, and is also expected to arise during Trump’s meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which will probably take place in Washington La Next week.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, also “emphasized” the desire of the Trump administration to work with India to address “concerns related to irregular migration” when he met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of India, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, last month.
Since then, New Delhi has said that he will recover such illegal immigrants after verifying his details.
The United States is the largest commercial partner in India and the two countries are forging deepest strategic ties while seeking to counteract China.
India is also interested in working with the USA. To facilitate their citizens to obtain visas from qualified workers.
The Pentagon has said that he plans to deport more than 5,000 migrants held by the US authorities, and Reuters He reported last week that a flight to Guatemala used for the purpose probably costs at least $ 4,675 per migrant.
