The US has deported 167 Indian nationals illegal immigrats through a special flight that landed at the Amritsar airport around 4 pm on Tuesday.
On their arrival, deported Indian nationals were shifted to a high-security area where they underwent medical screening.
They had reports of rapid diagnostic test (COVID-19) conducted prior boarding the plane in the US.
As per the protocol, all of them will be placed under the 14-day home quarantine in their respective districts.
Ajnala SDM Deepak Bhatia said, "The medical examination of the returnees is underway. So far, no suspected case of Covid-19 has surfaced."
Among those who are deported, the maximun are from Haryana i.e. 76; which is followed by 56 from Punjab; 12 from Gujarat; 5 from Uttar Pradesh; 4 from Maharashtra; 2 each from Kerala, Telengana and Tamil Nadu; and one each from Andhra Pradesh and Goa.
The SDM said, “Of the 67 returnees from Punjab, five each belong to Amritsar and Tarn Taran. Besides, 21 others will stay in Amritsar temporarily before they will be sent to their native states. We are working on the modalities in this connection.”
As per the information acquired from the sources the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has arrested 1,793 illegal Indian immigrants.
Most of them sneaked in to Texas, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Washington and Atlanta illegally through Mexico border illegally and sought asylum on the pretext of “atrocities and persecution” in India. They were, however, nabbed and lodged in 95 detention centres in New York, Atlanta and San Francisco.