Modi invited to visit Trump next week after India takes back flight of deported migrants

Narendra Modi is acceptable to sojourn Donald Trump arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent week aft India reportedly began taking backmost amerciable immigrants deported by the US.

The Indian premier curate spoke with Mr Trump connected the phone aft his inauguration arsenic the US president past month. After the 27 January call, Mr Trump said Mr Modi was “going to beryllium coming to the White House successful the adjacent month, astir apt successful February”.

Mr Modi would beryllium among the archetypal satellite leaders to conscionable the caller president. Israeli premier curate Benjamin Netanyahu became the archetypal overseas person to conscionable Mr Trump astatine the White House connected Tuesday.

The Trump medication began deporting amerciable migrants from India connected Tuesday arsenic portion of a wider crackdown connected amerciable immigrants successful the country. An unnamed US authoritative told Reuters that an American subject level had departed for India with migrants but would not get for astatine slightest 24 hours.

As portion of his escalating crackdown connected amerciable immigration, which fulfils a cardinal run promise, Mr Trump has closed the asylum strategy to radical lacking due documentation, assigned the subject to deport migration violators, and fixed deportation officers authorization to people the bulk of unauthorised immigrants, adjacent those without transgression records.

The Pentagon said past week that US subject planes were flying retired astir 5,000 immigrants held successful El Paso, Texas, and San Diego, California. So far, subject craft person flown migrants backmost to Guatemala, Peru and Honduras.

The Indian authorities has indicated a willingness to cooperate with the Trump medication successful identifying and repatriating its citizens who are surviving illegally successful the US successful a bid to debar a diplomatic oregon commercialized warfare with Washington. They person already identified 18,000 specified people, sources told Bloomberg.

The Pew Research Center estimates determination are astir 725,000 undocumented Indian migrants successful the US, making them the third-largest radical of amerciable immigrants successful the state aft those from Mexico and El Salvador. A 2022 Department of Homeland Security study said astir 220,000 Indians were surviving successful the US without authorisation.

Mr Modi’s impending sojourn comes amid mounting interest successful New Delhi implicit a imaginable commercialized warfare with the caller US administration. Mr Trump has repeatedly singled retired India for disapproval over precocious tariffs, claiming they harm American businesses, and pledged to enforce reciprocal duties connected goods from the South Asian country.

“If they taxation us, we taxation them the aforesaid amount,” the president said successful an interrogation connected Fox News. “They taxation us. We taxation them. And they taxation america astir successful each cases and we haven’t been taxing them.”

Mr Trump besides threatened to slap a 100 per cent import tariff connected countries successful the Brics bloc, of which India is simply a founding member, if they attempted to regenerate the American dollar for planetary trade.

Mr Modi shared a lukewarm narration with Mr Trump during his archetypal word from 2016 to 2020 with the 2 leaders appearing unneurotic astatine ample nationalist rallies successful Ahmedabad and Houston, respectively. Trade issues aside, Mr Modi’s ruling BJP has talked up Mr Trump’s November triumph arsenic being bully quality for bilateral ties.

India’s narration with the US continued to deepen during the Joe Biden medication contempt Washington accusing Mr Modi’s authorities of plotting the attempted assassination of a Sikh separatist person successful America and friction implicit New Delhi’s refusal to sever ties with Russia implicit the Ukraine war.

The US sees India arsenic a counterbalance to a rapidly rising China successful Asia and the 2 nations are portion of the Quad grouping with Australia and Japan.