Two flights transporting 119 Indian migrants sent back from the US are scheduled to land at the Guru Ram Dass International Airport in Amritsar on February 15 and February 16.
Officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, informed Hindustan Times that both flights are set to arrive at 10:05 PM on February 15 and 16.
The majority of those being deported on the flights are from Punjab (67).
According to PTI, individuals from Haryana (33), Gujarat (8), Uttar Pradesh (3), Maharashtra (2), Goa (2), Rajasthan (2), and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir follow them.
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The deportees set to arrive in India consist of individuals who entered the United States via Mexico and other pathways. According to the officials, they also reportedly destroyed their passports right after illegally entering the US.
Flights to Amritsar represent the second group of individuals returning during an extraordinary crackdown on those entering the US unlawfully by the Donald Trump administration.
US plane carrying 104 illegal immigrants arrived on February 5
Previously, on February 5, a US military plane transporting 104 undocumented immigrants from different states arrived in Amritsar, Punjab.
Among them, 33 were from Haryana and Gujarat, 30 from Punjab, three from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh.
Several deportees asserted that their hands and feet were restrained throughout the trip, and they were released from cuffs only upon arrival in Amritsar.
This sparked widespread anger across the country, with the opposition urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to address the matter with the US during his trip to Washington.
