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US officials have tied up about 100 Indian immigrants for 40 hours of return home, including during a bathroom break, in the latest incident that sparked rage overseas after President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown I did.
Indian lawmakers were demonstrating outside the assembly on Thursday, some wearing bondage, others occupying many reported friendships between Trump and India’s Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi lol I did.
Elsewhere in New Delhi, members of the youth wing of India’s major opposition parties burned Trump statues.
The sight of Colombian deportees being bound when they boarded a US deportation flight last month sparked a fierce conflict between the two countries, with Colombian President Gustavo Petro initially recognising military plane lands. I refused.
The outrage in India precedes a predicted visit by Modi to meet Trump, who was called “true friends” at the White House.
S. Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, the government minister in western Punjab where deportation flights have landed, urged Modi to “use his friendship now to solve the problem.”
Dhaliwal also questioned the “usefulness of this friendship if it cannot help Indian citizens in need,” his office said in a statement.
Flights to India have been the longest in the distance since the Trump administration began deploying military aircraft to deport immigrants, according to US officials.
“Our hands were cuffed and our ankles were chained before flying,” said 23-year-old Akashdeep Singh, who arrived in Punjab with 103 other exiles on Wednesday. .
“We asked the military authorities to take it off and eat or go to the bathroom, but they treated us horribly and without any issues,” Singh added. .
“The way they saw us, I will never forget it… We went to the bathroom with bondage. Just before landing, they removed the (shuckle) for the woman. We saw it. For us they were eliminated after we landed by local police officers.”
US Border Patrol Chief Michael W. Banks posted a video of the Indian Denners on the plane on X’s plane. The video shows bondage on the wrists and ankles of several men slowly shuffling the lamp.
CNN has contacted the Pentagon and US Customs and Border Protection to comment on whether Denner was tied up while in flight.
Deportee Sukhpal Singh, 35, said bondage was maintained during flight, including during a stopover for refueling on the Pacific Island of Guam.
“They treated us like criminals,” he said. “If they were trying to stand because their legs were swollen due to handcuffs, they would sit and scream at us.”
Young Indians looking for job opportunities make up a significant portion of US undocumented immigrants after taking dangerous treks to reach the US southern border It’s there.
Many say they don’t see the future in a home that stifles young hope in the world’s most populous country.
In just four years, the number of Indian citizens who have entered the US illegally has skyrocketed dramatically. 2018-19 has now moved from 8,027 to 96,917 in 2022-23, government data shows.
The family previously told CNN how to sell the land to raise tens of thousands of dollars charged by a “travel agent” on a dangerous journey to the United States.
“I was going for work, for a better life, for a better future,” he said, “I had a son and daughter and wanted to provide them better by getting a job in the US.” Tasufpar Singh said.
“You’ve seen it in the movies and heard from the people around you that there’s work there and people are successful there, so I wanted to go too.”
