{"id":233161,"date":"2025-02-06T13:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/u-s-military-deportation-to-india-creates-headache-for-trump-ally\/"},"modified":"2025-02-06T13:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T13:32:13","slug":"u-s-military-deportation-to-india-creates-headache-for-trump-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/06\/u-s-military-deportation-to-india-creates-headache-for-trump-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Military Deportation to India Creates Headache for Trump Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/06\/multimedia\/06india-backlash-01-wzvl\/06india-backlash-01-wzvl-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"U.S. Military Deportation to India Creates Headache for Trump Ally\" title=\"U.S. Military Deportation to India Creates Headache for Trump Ally\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Indian Parliament erupted into an uproar on Thursday over reports that illegal migrants being deported to the country on an American military plane had faced mistreatment, including being shackled during the long intercontinental journey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">More than 100 illegal immigrants were returned to India on Wednesday. While deportations are nothing new \u2014 India is <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/26\/world\/asia\/india-illegal-immigration-trump.html?searchResultPosition=1\" title=\"\">a big source<\/a> of unauthorized migration to the United States \u2014 most have relied on commercial flights. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The use of a military aircraft, along with the claims of mistreatment, appear to have hit a nerve, creating a political headache for Prime Minister Narendra Modi days before he is expected to visit Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Modi\u2019s has described the American president as a \u201cdear friend.\u201d<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span>Officials in India had hoped their declared willingness to work with the United States on taking back migrants would avoid the embarrassment and back-and-forths seen in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/26\/world\/americas\/colombia-us-deportation-flights.html\" title=\"\">countries like Brazil and Colombia<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In India, much of the outrage on Thursday was in response to reports in local media, citing accounts of deportees, that they were shackled for over 40 hours and that their access to toilets was restricted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A video put out by the U.S. Border Patrol showed the deportees boarding the plane in shackles. A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi declined to comment on reports that women and children were shackled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Sukhpal Singh, a 35-year-old chef from the Indian state of Punjab, who had been arrested upon entering the United States through Mexico in January, was among them, according to his father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe told me that he was handcuffed, as were the other adults. His feet were also shackled,\u201d his father, Prempal Singh, said in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cEveryone around him was tied \u2014 adults, both male and female were chained.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Thursday, opposition lawmakers staged a protest in Parliament, some wearing handcuffs and carrying signs that read \u201chumans, not prisoners.\u201d They demanded to know how many Indians in the United States were facing imminent deportation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWhy did we not send our own planes to bring back the Indians, with dignity and respect, instead of a military plane landing on our soil?\u201d Mallikarjun Kharge, the president of the Indian National Congress, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In a scramble to control the damage, India\u2019s foreign minister, S. Jaishankar, told Parliament that deportation procedures \u201cprovide for the use of restraints,\u201d and he said American officials had confirmed to them that women and children were not shackled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cWe are, of course, engaging the U.S. government to ensure that the returning deportees are not mistreated in any manner during the flight,\u201d Mr. Jaishankar said after the protest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He told Parliament that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement looks after the needs of the deportees, including food and medical requirements.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cDuring toilet breaks, deportees are temporarily unrestrained if needed in that regard,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But his response revealed the delicate balance that his government needs to walk \u2014 between containing the domestic uproar and demonstrating its strictness on illegal immigration to the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cOur focus,\u201d he said, should be on a \u201cstrong crackdown on the illegal migration industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/06\/world\/asia\/india-deportation-trump-modi.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Parliament erupted into an uproar on Thursday over reports that illegal migrants being deported to the country on an American military plane had faced mistreatment, including being shackled during the long intercontinental journey. More than 100 illegal immigrants were returned to India on Wednesday. While deportations are nothing new \u2014 India is a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/06\/multimedia\/06india-backlash-01-wzvl\/06india-backlash-01-wzvl-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,5448,5500,163575,26022,90287,273,2198,1686,7792,52,221,1021,163486],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":233163,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233161\/revisions\/233163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}