NEW DELHI: Two more United States flights carrying more illegal Indian immigrants are scheduled to land in Punjab’s Amritsar on February 15-16.
A United States flight carrying second batch of 119 illegal Indian immigrants is scheduled to land on February 15.
According to PTI official sources, the plane is expected to land at the airport around 10 pm on Saturday.
Among the 119 illegal Indian immigrants, 67 hail from Punjab, 33 from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh, two each from Goa, Maharashtra and Rajasthan and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, the report said.
Another US plane carrying deportees is also expected to land on February 16.
The development comes hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi met United States President Donald Trump and asserted the need to fight against the “ecosystem” of human trafficking that lures people from ordinary families with big dreams and promises and brought to other countries as illegal immigrants.
This is not a question about India only but is a global issue, PM Modi said on the issue of illegal immigration during a joint press conference with Trump in the White House on Thursday.
“We are of the opinion that anybody who enters and lives in another country illegally, they have absolutely no legal right or authority to live in that country,” PM Modi said.
Earlier, a US military aircraft carrying 104 illegal Indian immigrants landed at the Shri Guru Ramdas Ji International Airport in Amritsar on February 5.
While 30 of the deportees were from Punjab, 33 each were from Haryana and Gujarat, three each from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh.