Bhagwant Mann took to X to explicit his choler astatine the mode the deportees were treated. (File)
Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann Thursday sharply reacted to the handcuffing and chaining of Indians deported by the United States.
Mann took to X to explicit his choler astatine the mode the deportees were treated. He besides criticised the Haryana authorities for taking deportees successful captive vans from Amritsar, aft they landed successful a US subject aircraft.
Mann wrote, “What America has done is profoundly regrettable. It is simply a substance of large shame for our state that America sends our citizens successful handcuffs and shackles. Instead of applying balm connected the wounds of Indians deported from America, who are mentally and economically broke, Modi’s Haryana authorities is taking them successful constabulary captive vans. It is similar rubbing brackish successful their wounds.”
On Thursday, the United States Customs and Border Protection (USBP) unit released a video showing “illegal immigrants” handcuffed and shackled.
Michael W Banks, Chief, USBP, shared the video of the deportation connected X, saying, “USBP and partners successfully returned amerciable aliens to India, marking the farthest deportation formation yet utilizing subject transport. This ngo underscores our committedness to enforcing migration laws and ensuring swift removals. If you transverse illegally, you volition beryllium removed.”
The Punjab authorities had deputed its NRI Affairs Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal astatine the Amritsar airdrome erstwhile the deportees had landed. Dhaliwal spent galore hours astatine that airdrome connected Wednesday and met the youths from Punjab. He had assured them of authorities support.
Dhaliwal had stated that the authorities would permission nary chromatic unturned to assistance these youths, who had returned aft spending lakhs and would find it hard to wage disconnected their loans.
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On Thursday, Dhaliwal took to X stating that the youths were not criminals but duped successful hunt of greener pastures by question agents.
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