‘Inadvertent’: While fashion visits Trump, anger due to the shackled Indian deported | Migration

New Delhi, India – Kulvander Kaur tried and tried to call his husband again in the United States. After two weeks that did not pass, anxiety swallowed, she said from her Hoshiarpuru home, in the northern Indian State of Punjab.

“I was really afraid of what could happen to him – if he was robbed or killed there. The father of my children and I was afraid if I would ever see him again,” Kaur said.

She then saw the broadcast of the news: President Donald Trump’s administration deported a series of illegal Indian immigrants.

Her husband Harvinander Singh, 40, was among the 104 Indians who had entered the United States illegally in the last few years, who had deported the authorities on Wednesday while Trump doubled on a key election pledge that brought him back to power in January.

Singh was desperately traveled through the jungle, crossing the rivers and the sea, so far, in search of a better life of his family in Punjab. This week, like many other detainees, including women, Singh had arms and legs full of 40-hour trip to Amritsar, a city in northern India.

Visuals of Indian citizens-killed in chains-who parade to a US military aircraft because of their farthest trip as a flight of deportations, encouraged anger in India. On Thursday, hours after they landed, opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi from the Congress Party, staged a protest that carried foxes outside Parliament in New Delhi.

For days before the visited visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on February 13, anger for treating Indian nationals by US authorities is also full of questions about Modi’s Bromans with Trump. If Trump is truly a friend of Modi, as both leaders claim, why can’t New Delhi prevent him in steps that could complicate ties?

The answer, experts say, is a difficult act of balance that the Government believes in believes must be managed.

“A question with Trump’s administration is that there are numerous questions on the table, including tariffs,” said Harsh Pant, analyst of geopolitics from New Delhi, headquartered in New Delhi, Foundation for observer research, inviting Trump threats to impose tariffs Indian imports. “So, where do you surrender and where are you negotiating?

“In order to make Trump happy, which by nature is transactions, India does not want to raise the roles too much [on the immigration issue] And absorbs the costs, “Panta told Al Jazeera.” There are other challenges they face. “

‘Crass Side of America’

After Trump declared a national emergency because of immigration, his administration began military flights to deport the unfathomable migrants. US authorities sent at least six immigrants plans to Latin America, which prompted tension with Colombia and Brazil. The Government of Brazil protested against “the humiliating treatment of passengers on the flight” after she came out that his nationals were tied and foxed while they were deported.

India, however, did not say that she was protesting for a similar treatment that was altered to her nationals. Of the 104 Indians on the plane that landed on Wednesday, several children – however, did not know they had been installed.

Since 2022, India finished third, after Mexico and El Salvador, among countries with the largest number of unfathomable immigrants – 725,000 – who live in the United States.

The head of the American Border Patrol, Michael Banks, wrote on X that the authorities “successfully returned illegal foreigners to India,” writing a video showing how they were guided on a military plane on a military plane: “If you go illegally, you will be removed.”

Anil Trigunayat, a former Indian diplomat who served in the United States, said Al Jazeera that “treatment with Indian nationals, pulling them like criminals like this unprecedented one.”

“It is also common for such things basically inhuman. They showed a very cunning side of the American establishment, “Tigunayat said.” This is a creepy language. And absolutely unjustified and unnecessary. “

‘She was embraced in chains’

After the distress of opposition leaders in both Homes of Parliament on Thursday, the Indian Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs told Parliament that the Government was cooperating with Trump’s administration to ensure that Indian nationals were not harassed while deported.

Jaishankar also noted that the US operating procedure allowed “use of limit” during deportation since 2012 and added “There was no change over the past procedure.”

He also distributed the Government data from 2009 to deported, touching in the 2042 high in 2019, before falling slightly again. Last year, US authorities deported 1368 unfathomable Indian immigrants.

He added that in New Delhi, the United States said that women and children were not restrained and that their demands were attended during transit, including food, medical attention and toilet breaks.

That was not the experience of Khusboo Patel, a 35-year-old from Modi’s home country in a Gujarat, on a 40-hour trip home, her family said.

“She was shackled in the chains of her entire journey, strictly limited to her place,” her older brother Varun Patel told Al Jazeera from his house in Vadodari, a city in the eastern Gujarata.

Khusboo was in the US -barely a month when the authorities closed it. “We were not aware of her place and that made us anxious,” Patel, brother said. The family learned of Khusboo’s return when local media contacted them inquiring about their home.

“She told us they were brought in like prisoners and criminals,” he said. “No one hurt her, but it was a scary experience.”

Patel said he was disappointed with the failure of the Modi Government to “secure the dignified return of our citizens.”

“What can I do for us now? That time disappeared. Our government enabled this harassment. “

Broken dreams

Return at home in Hoshiarpur, Singh and Kauro are now taking care of how they will regain a debt of more than $ 55,000 owed to friends, a local bank and a small lender who allowed the repayment of agents to enter the Singh US. The couple, the parents of two children, sold their agricultural land – but that was not enough. Not a distance.

“We were deceived by our agent, who left my husband to go from one place to another,” Kaur, 35, told Al Jazeera.

Talking in a muffled voice, Kaur said she felt when she saw immigrants in the cuffs. “I’m pleased that my husband is home now,” she said. “But now we’re worried about the huge debt we are under. How will we ever regain that money?”

Vinod Kumar, head of the Sociology Department at Panjab University, Chandigarh, said thousands of young people continue to sell their belongings and take up risky, so -called Dunki routes in search of a better life. “With the deportation, they ended their careers in both home and abroad,” he said, adding that most deported came from a lower income family.

“Earlier this trend was limited to a filling, a gujarat or some states in [southern India]”Said Kumar, who specializes in the diaspora policy. He is now spreading to other parts of India.

Singh and stayed on the plane with him returned where they left.

“They need to restart from scratch now,” Kumar said.