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The opposition members disrupted the session of the Indian Parliament because they questioned the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for his response to the alleged abuse of 104 of their citizens while deported from the USA.

The Proceedings in Donji and Gornji Parliament’s homes were postponed on Thursday, while the legislators sang the slogans and invited the Government of Modi to address the deportation process, which was described as “humiliating”.

In the notification of the Secretary General of the Lower House of Parliament, the opposition congress party Gaurav Gogoi described the deportation procedure as “humiliating”, adding that he is “serious concern about their human dignity and rights.”

The deportation followed a week before it is expected that the President of the United States Donald Trump will meet Modi in Washington, DC. Migration is expected to come during Trump’s conversations with Modi.

On Wednesday, an American military plane carried by unfathomable immigrants landed in Sikh Sveti Grad Amritsar in the State of Punjab, part of mass deportation programs written by Trump.

“USBP (American border patrol) and partners successfully returned illegal foreigners to India, marking the farthest flight of deportations, but using military transportation,” said USBP chief Michael Banks in the post on X.

“If you go illegally, you will be removed,” he said in a post, which had a video showing that some men were guided into a fox and legs in chains.

All immigrants, who banned the children, were in handcuffs during the flight, reported Indieski and Indian Express money, quoting unnamed police officers in Punjab who said they had talked to the deports.

The Press Trust of India news agency quoted one of the deported, Jaspal Singh, saying that the landfill and leg chains were removed only after they landed in the amrritsar.

Singh, 36, said they initially thought they were taken to another camp in the US.

“Then a police officer told us we were taken to India,” he was quoted.

After the deportations arrived in India, they were undergoing several hours of surveillance at the Amritsar Airport before being escorted by police in small groups in police vehicles.

Some of the deported Thursday flew with a regular flight to Ahmedabad in the State of Gujarat, closer to their homes.

Indian Foreign Minister responds

In response, the Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said that New Delhi was dealing with the US to ensure that unfinished Indian immigrants were harassed while deported.

Jaishankar told Parliament that the deportation procedure follows the US authorities is not new and allows the use of restrictions on immigrants that have been returned to their home countries.

He added that “the obligation of all countries is to return its nationals if it is determined that they live illegally abroad.”

The speaker of Parliament of OM Birla also tried to calm the opposition MPs, saying that “foreign country also has its own rules and regulations.”

Outside of Parliament, opposition legislators, including the leader of Congress Rahul Gandhi, continued their protest while demanding the response of Modi’s government. Some of them wore foxes and wore posters that read, “People, not prisoners.”

Although the Indian immigrants have deported previous US administrations, it was the first time Washington had done so a military aircraft.

India collaborated with the US and said he was ready to accept the deported Indians after checking.

New Delhi says it is against unproven immigration, mainly because it is associated with several forms of organized crime.

The implementation of the Immigration Act was “critically important” for the safety and public security of the US, said a spokesman for the US Embassy in Delhi.

“The policy of the United States is faithful to execute immigration laws against all inadmissible and removable strangers,” a spokesman added.

The Pew Research Center report says that since 2022 India finished third – after Mexico and El Salvador – on the list of countries with the largest number of unfathomable immigrants – 725,000 – who live in the US.