Ambala: There is a ruckus in the country on the issue of 104 NRIs deported from America. On this issue, Haryana minister Anil Vij said that like America, India should also think about deporting lakhs and crores of illegal immigrants in the country. He said that every country has the right to deport illegal immigrants, such people are born somewhere else, but why do we feed them? The Cabinet  Minister was talking to media persons here and said the way 104 illegal immigrant Indians deported from America have returned to the country, has created a ruckus in the country. Some are raising questions on the government, while others are blaming America. This issue is being raised from the Parliament to every street and locality. The Cabinet Minister rightly has said that like the US, India should also think about deporting the ‘lakhs and crores’ of illegal immigrants in the country, since every country has the right to deport illegal immigrants and US President Donald Trump has not made any mistake by doing so.

Vij said, “Such people are born somewhere else, but we feed them. Why? They should go where they are born. Government should also make a policy in this regard and they should be sent back to their respective countries.” According to a senior official of the police department, an investigation has been launched against travel agents after the deportees were cheated by the agents, and several deportees have alleged that they were promised ‘green card’, citizenship and regularization by the agents, but this did not happen. Information also reveals that an SIT will be formed to investigate agencies that have cheated youths willing to settle abroad. The probe will be conducted by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Ambala Range IG Sibash Kabiraj, which was set up in 2023 by then home minister Vij to tackle the rising cases of ‘kabootar baazi’ who had suggested registration of immigration agents to avoid cheatings.

Vij said this in response to Punjab NRI Affairs Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal’s appeal to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to speak to the US President regarding the deportation. “I say learn from this. There are lakhs of people in this country illegally… they were born somewhere else, they should be sent back to their respective countries,” Vij added. According to information, of the 104 deportees who arrived at the Amritsar airport on Wednesday, there were 33 each from Haryana and Gujarat, 30 from Punjab, three each from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh and two from Chandigarh.