The military deportation of the US military in India creates a headache for Trump allies

The Indian parliament broke out into a turmoil on Thursday because it was reported that illegal migrants who were deported to the country in an American military aircraft, including the tied long -term interlive trip.

On Wednesday, more than 100 illegal immigrants returned to India. While deportations are nothing new – India is A large source The unauthorized migration to the USA – most have rely on commercial flights.

The use of a military aircraft together with the allegations of the abuse seems to have hit a nerve that created a political headache for Prime Minister Narendra Modi before being visited President Trump in Washington.

Mr. Modi described the president as a “dear friend”. The officials in India had hoped that their declared willingness to work with the United States, withdrawing through migrants, the embarrassment and the back and forth Countries like Brazil and Colombia.

In India, a large part of the outrage on Thursday was reaction to reports in local media, citing reports from deported that they were tied up over 40 hours and that their access to toilets was restricted.

A video published by the US border patrol showed that the deportees in bonds got on the plane. A spokesman for the US message in Neu -Delhi refused to report that women and children were tied up.

According to his father, Sukhpal Singh, a 35-year-old cook from the Indian state of Punjab, who joined Mexico in January, was among them.

“He told me that he was tied up with handcuffs, as did the other adults. His feet were also tied up, ”said his father, Prempal Singh, in a telephone interview.

“Everyone around him were tied – adults, both male and female, were chained.”

On Thursday, the opposition’s legislators organized a protest in parliament, some carried handcuffs and carried signs with “people, not prisoners”. They wanted to know how many Indians were exposed to an impending deportation in the United States.

“Why didn’t we send our own planes to bring the Indians back with dignity and respect instead of a military aircraft that ends up on our ground?” Mallikarjun Kharge, the President of the Indian National Congress, said.

In a scramble to control the damage, the Foreign Minister of India, S. Jaishankar, told Parliament that deportation procedures “present the use of restrictions”, and he said that American civil servants had confirmed that women and children were not tied up .

“Of course, we are committed to the US government to ensure that the returning deportees are in no way abused during the flight,” said Jaishankar after the protest.

He informed the parliament that the US immigration and customs authority looked after the needs of the deported, including food and medical requirements.

“During the toilet breaks, deportees are temporarily unreserved in this regard,” he said.

However, his answer resulted in the sensitive balance that its government must run – between compliance with domestic turmoil and the demonstration of the strict immigration of the Trump government.

“Our focus,” he said should be on a “strong approach to the illegal migration industry”.