Second US deportation flight lands in Amritsar with 116 Indian immigrants

Third plane carrying 157 deportees expected to arrive today

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A plane carrying 116 illegal immigrants from the US landed at the Amritsar airport on Saturday, the second such batch of Indians to be deported by the Donald Trump administration as part of its promised crackdown on illegal migration.

The flight landed at the airport around 11:30 pm as against the expected time of 10 pm, official sources said. Earlier, there were reports that the plane would carry 119 immigrants.

Among the 116 deportees, 98 are from Punjab and Haryana. While 65 are from Punjab, 33 are from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, two each from Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Most of the deportees are in the age group of 18 to 30, as per the sources. The second batch of illegal Indian immigrants to be deported from the United States has four women and two minors, including a six-year-old girl, the sources said. The families of some of the deportees reached the airport to receive them.

A third plane carrying 157 deportees is also expected to land on Sunday, they said.

On February 5, a US military aircraft carrying 104 illegal Indian immigrants landed at the Amritsar airport. Of the deportees, 33 each were from Haryana and Gujarat, and 30 from Punjab. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann kept up his attack on the BJP-led Centre on Saturday over the landing of US planes with illegal Indian immigrants at the Amritsar airport and asked it not to make the holy city a "deport centre".