Video: Indian pupil handcuffed, pinned to floor at US airport, deported

An Indian pupil was handcuffed, pinned to the bottom at an airport within the US and deported again to India, a social media consumer who shared movies and footage from the incident claimed.

“I witnessed a younger Indian pupil being deported from Newark Airport final evening— handcuffed, crying, handled like a legal. He got here chasing goals, not inflicting hurt. As an NRI, I felt helpless and heartbroken. It is a human tragedy,” he wrote on X.

In keeping with social media consumer Kunal Jain, a social entrepreneur, the scholar was talking in Haryanvi, insisting that he wasn’t loopy, however the authorities had been attempting to make him look that approach.

“These youngsters get their visas and get on a flight within the morning. For some cause, they’re unable to elucidate the rationale for his or her go to to the immigration authorities and are despatched again within the night flight tied up like criminals. Each day 3-4 such circumstances are taking place. There have been extra such circumstances in the previous couple of days,” Jain mentioned.

Jain urged Indian embassy in US and Exterior Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to take up the matter. “Somebody wants to search out out what’s occurring with him at New Jersey authorities. I discovered him disoriented,” he wrote.

This comes amid the US authorities’s intensified crackdown on worldwide college students by revoking visas with out prior discover. From pro-Palestine protests to visitors violations, the explanations have various case by case, typically plunging college students right into a authorized quagmire and widespread confusion.