Punjab minister urges Modi to talk to Trump over deportation of Indians

Hours after a US plane landed on the Amritsar airport with unlawful immigrants, Punjab NRI affairs minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal on Wednesday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to talk to his “pal” US President Donald Trump concerning the deportation of Indians.
Dhaliwal additionally spoke to a few of the deportees hailing from Punjab on the airport.
The US army plane carrying 104 unlawful immigrants landed at Amritsar’s Shri Guru Ramdas Ji Worldwide Airport on Wednesday afternoon — the primary such batch of Indians deported by the Trump authorities.
Whereas 30 of the deportees are from Punjab, 33 every are from Haryana and Gujarat, three every from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh, sources mentioned. Talking to the media in Amritsar, Dhaliwal mentioned that immigration strategy of deportees was underway on the airport.
He mentioned a complete of 104 Indians have been deported from the US and of those, 30 are from Punjab. “All are wholesome and okay. It was an extended flight,” he mentioned. They’d their meal, he additional mentioned.
“Within the first batch, paperwork of individuals from Punjab was achieved. Thereafter, the immigration strategy of those that are from Haryana, Gujarat and different states can be carried out,” Dhaliwal mentioned.
Terming the deportation “very severe,” Dhaliwal appealed to the Centre and Prime Minister Modi to talk to Trump to resolve this difficulty.