Police officials escort Indian immigrants, wearing mask, deported from the United States, who arrived astatine the Ahmedabad airdrome connected February 6 (AP Photo)
The United States deported the highest fig of Indian nationals successful 2019 nether US President Donald Trump’s archetypal word (2017-21) successful the White House, per information shared by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar connected Thursday.
Jaishankar was speaking successful Parliament amid the spotlight connected the 104 Indian nationals deported by the US this week. The accomplishment of the deportees successful handcuffs and chains connected a US subject level caused rather a flurry, with the Opposition flagging the “inhumane treatment”. Jaishankar, however, noted that the contented is not new, and the US has routinely sent backmost amerciable migrants to India.
Over the past 15 years (till February 5, 2025), the US has deported implicit 15,000 Indian migrants, with the highest successful the twelvemonth 2019 (2,042). The year-wise information is shown successful the illustration below.
Number of Indians deported from the US betwixt 2009-February 2025
2019 was besides the year, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported the astir fig of amerciable migrants wide nether the Trump administration.
Overall, Biden deported much migrants than Trump
Interestingly, ICE recorded the highest yearly tally of wide deportations successful the fiscal twelvemonth 2024 (October 2023-September 2024) nether the Joe Biden administration. It deported 2,71,484 to 192 countries, higher than the 2019 tally of 2,67,258.
ICE’s highest deportation number stands astatine 3,15,943 nether Barack Obama’s 2nd word successful 2014.
According to the enforcement agency, the emergence successful deportations successful FY24 tin beryllium attributed to palmy negotiations with receiving countries, allowing them to summation the fig of deportation flights, and grow the operations to the weekends. ICE stated that it besides sent its archetypal ample charter formation to China successful six years.
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According to the New York Times, the summation successful deportations nether the Biden medication was besides owed to the summation successful the inflow of amerciable migrants since helium took office.
Data provided by the Office of Homeland Security Statistics shows that the astir fig of deportations nether the Biden medication were nether Title 42, which allowed authorities to expel definite migrants successful the involvement of nationalist health. Title 42 came into unit nether the Trump medication successful 2020 erstwhile the Covid-19 pandemic struck. Biden continued the signifier till May 2023, erstwhile the nationalist wellness exigency was lifted.
This year, Trump vowed wide deportation of “illegal aliens”, whom helium often touts arsenic “criminals”. As a awesome of his pugnacious anti-immigrant stance, the Trump medication has been sending deportees successful subject planes, handcuffed and chained.
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