3rd US plane brings back 112 deportees

A third US military aircraft carrying another 112 Indian immigrants landed at the Amritsar airport late on Sunday evening, taking the number of deportees brought back from America amid a crackdown by the Donald Trump administration against illegal immigrants to 333.

- Surjit Singh

AMRITSAR:

The United States Air Force C-17 Globemaster jet landed at the Sri Guru Ramdas Jee International Airport at 10:05 pm, officers in the police department familiar with the matter said.

Of the 112 deportees, maximum 44 are from Haryana, followed by 33 from Gujarat, 31 from Punjab, two from Uttar Pradesh and one each from Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, the people said, adding that the deportees also included 19 women and 14 minors, including two infants.

The Punjab government, the people cited above said, had made arrangements to receive the deportees, their health check-up, dinner and transportation. Families of some of the deportees from Punjab reached the airport to receive them.