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The central government on Friday told the Parliament that 295 Indian deportees from the US could be returning home after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) verifies their details.
ICE has shared information about the 295 individuals with the Ministry of External Affairs who are currently detained in their custody and that their final removal order has been approved by the US government.
Earlier today, the Indian government confirmed that women and children who were deported in February were “ not restrained ” on their flights back home last month.
The ministry has also voiced its concern about the need to accommodate the religious sensitivities and food preferences of the Indian deportees. In response, the US side has conveyed that detainees on the three deportation flights earlier were not instructed to remove any religious head coverings and that the detainees did not request any religious accommodations during the flights aside from requesting vegetarian meals.
Since January, a total of 388 Indian deportees have arrived in the country till date after US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing all illegal immigrants to leave the country immediately.
Last month, a US military aeroplane carrying 104 deported Indians landed in the country. A C-17 military aircraft transported the first group of deportees from San Antonio, Texas, to Amritsar.
According to data from the Pew Research Center, approximately 725,000 undocumented Indian immigrants reside in the US, ranking them as the third-largest group after Mexicans and Salvadorans. However, these figures are contested. The Migration Policy Institute, on the other hand, estimates the number to be around half of that.
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