Amid the US deportation row, the central government is considering enacting a new law in a bid to establish a framework to promote "safe, orderly and regular migration for overseas employmenꦿt".
The tentatively titled 'Overseas Mobility (Facilitation and Welfare) Bill, 2024' emerged from a report presented in Lok Sabha by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, headed by ﷽Congress MP Shashi Tharoor, on Monday.
The development came amid the ongoing row oജver the United States deporting over a hundred Indian migrants who landed in Amritsar on Wednesday on a C-17 US military aircraft in a chained and shackled condition.
"The government carefully monitors the number of students in all foreign countries, and carefully monitors their welfare in situations of tension. We alert students, as we have done♋ in Ukraine. Whenever there is a situation when we need to run flights, we are p💫repared. We have contingency plans," said External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in Parliament today.
While presenting the report, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor acknowledged that deportations of illegal immigrants✱ were routine. How🍰ever, he strongly criticised the US authorities over how they handled the Indian nationals.
"It's not the first time people have been deported. Last year, over 1,100 Indians were sent back under the Biden administration. But this case has drawn attention because it was done more aggressively," Mr Tharoor said, as per a report by NDTV.
US Deported Illegal Indian Migrants
The sending back of the Indians was in line with US President Donald Trump's pledge to carry out the largest deportation in American histoౠry which includes tightened US immigration policies.
Among them, 33 were from Haryana and Gujarat, 30 f𒀰rom Punjab, three from Maharashtra and🍎 Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh. Nineteen women and 13 minors, including a four-year-old boy and two girls aged five and seven, were also on the flight.
Jaspal Singh, 36, who was among 104 deportees brought in a US a🌠ircraft on Wednesday told PTI that their hands and legs were cuffed throughout the journey and they were unshackled only after landing at the Amritsar airport.
The C-17 Globemaster aircraft of the US Air Force landed at 🌄the Amritsar airport at 1:55 pm. The US action came just days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington to hold wide-ranging talks with President Donald Trump.
The Opposition party leaders have expressed regret over the mistreatment of Indian nationals in the foreign land and assured to take up the issue in Parliament while also demanding a statement fro👍m the Ministry of External Affairs.
