Returned Illegals Aliens To India Says US Official, Shares Video of Cuffed Deportees

New Delhi: Amid the ongoing debate over the deportation of illegal Indian from America allegedly in a handcuffed and chained state, United States Border Patrol (USBP) chief Michael W Banks released a video on social media showing Indian nationals in handcuffs and leg restraints while boarding the US aircraft.

“USBP and partners successfully returned illegal aliens to India, marking the farthest deportation flight yet using military transport. This mission underscores our commitment to enforcing immigration laws and ensuring swift removals. If you cross illegally you will be removed,” Banks wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

This comes amid the Indian Opposition parties creating a furore in Parliament over the alleged inhuman manner in which illegal Indian migrants were deported from the US.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor dubbed the Trump administration’s alleged move to deport the Indian nationals in “handcuffs” as an insult to India.

On Wednesday, a US Air Force aircraft carrying 104 Indian nationals landed in Amritsar amid Trump’s intensified crackdown against illegal immigration. Some of the deportees, in an interview to the India Today, said they were unshackled only after landing in Amritsar. However, Press Information Bureau had claimed photos of handcuffed Indian deportees in circulation on the internet as fake.