Almost all the deportees, apprehended at the US-Mexico border, originated from northern Indian states and had fled spiralling unemployment at home via established migration scams known as the 'donkey route'. This recent deportation highlights the growing issue of undocumented Indian migration and the dangers associated with these scams.
Almost all the returning deportees had fled spiralling unemployment at home via an established network of migration scams
The US immigration authorities are believed to have identified 18,000 undocumented Indian migrants from an overall total of about 725,000 – the third largest group after Mexico and El Salvador – for imminent deportation. India has, in principle, agreed to take them all back. Indian diplomats and security officials are believed to have persuaded their US counterparts not to make the latest deportations a high-visibility spectacle, as it would politically embarrass Mr Modi’s government.
It was also an attempt, he added, to placate the Trump administration on its primary deportation policy front, to try to avoid the imposition of trade tariffs on India.
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