US military aircraft carrying first batch of illegal Indian immigrants arrives in Amritsar,India: 33 deportees from Gujarat.

US military aircraft carrying first batch of illegal Indian immigrants arrives in Amritsar

A US military plane carrying 104 illegal Indian immigrants landed.

NEW DELHI: The US military plane carrying 104 illegal Indian immigrants landed in Amritsar on Wednesday afternoon, marking the Donald Trump-administration's first crackdown on the country's migrants after assuming office. The official confirmation on the number of deportees are still awaited.

A total of 30 deportees aboard the flight were residents of Punjab. Further, 33 deportees are each are from Haryana and Gujarat, three each from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh, PTI reporting citing sources. Earlier, there were reports of 205 illegal Indian immigrants being deported.

The flight landed at Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport amidst tight security from Punjab Police at 1.55pm.

Amritsar airport director, deputy commissioner, commissioner of police, and CIF director had held a meeting and the police barricaded the cargo gate and another entry point at the airport as a part of the security measure.

An official on Tuesday had confirmed that a C-17 aircraft carrying migrants had departed for India.

This comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's two-day visit to the States, where he is also scheduled to meet Trump and hold talks with him.

Deportation after Modi-Trump conversation on immigration

PM Modi and Trump had recently held a conversation where they discussed immigration among other matters of global peace and security.

"Discussed immigration with Modi. India will do what is right when it comes to taking back illegal immigrants," Trump had said of the conversation.

India had assured the US of cooperating in tackling illegal immigration by taking back the migrants who had entered America unlawfully.

"We are against illegal immigration, especially because it is linked to several forms of organised crime," MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal had said last month.