‘Inhuman’: As Modi visits Trump, outrage over shackled Indian deportees

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Published on: 07/02/2025 | 00:00:00

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Harvinder Singh, 40, was among the 104 Indians who had entered the US illegally over the last few years. She had made a desperate journey through jungles, crossing rivers and seas, to the US. This week, like many other detainees, Singh had his hands and legs cuffed during the 40-hour journey. Experts say the issue with the Trump administration is there are a number of issues on the table, including tariffs. India does not want to raise the stakes too much [on the immigration issue] and is absorbing the costs. The US authorities have sent at least six planeloads of immigrants to Latin America. As of 2022, India ranked third, after Mexico and El Salvador, among countries with the largest number of undocumented immigrants – 725,000 – living in the US. Anil Trigunayat said the “treatment with Indian nationals, dragging them like criminals like this is unprecedented” in his experience. Indian External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said the government was working with the Trump administration to ensure that Indian citizens are not mistreated while being deported. Khusboo Patel, 35, from Modi’s home state in Gujarat, was deported by the US authorities last year. She had been in the US barely for a month when she was detained by the authorities. “Nobody harmed her but it was a horrifying experience,” her elder brother said. Singh and Kaur are now worried about how they’ll recover the debt of more than $55,000 owed to friends, a local bank and small-time lenders. Vinod Kumar, head of the sociology department at Panjab University, Chandigarh, said thousands of youth continue to sell their belongings and take up risky, so-called dunki routes. Kumar said a majority of deportees come from lower-income families. Now it’s expanding to other parts of India.

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