1,080 Indians deported from US since January: MEA
One thousand and eighty Indians have been deported from the United States since January, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Thursday.
The statement, by ministry spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal, came in response to a question about deportation of Indian citizens from the United States.
“We have close cooperation between India and the US over the migration issue,” Jaiswal said during a press briefing. “On deportation of Indian nationals who have an illegal status there, who travelled there illegally, we take them back once we receive details about them.”
The ministry verifies the nationalities of those being deported before it tries to “get them back”, he said.
“Since January 2025, we have 1,080 Indians who have come back or who have been deported from the United States,” the ministry spokesperson said. “Of these, 62% of them have come on commercial flights.”
The statement comes amid the tightening of immigration regulations under the Donald Trump administration. In some cases, the US government had used military aircraft to...
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