Senior Congress leader and MP from Chandigarh, Manish Tewari, condemned the treatment, calling it “medieval.” He said, “It is absolutely inhuman to handcuff and shackle people, not even allowing them to use the toilet for 40 hours while deporting them. What is their crime? They went looking for a better life. Yes, they did it illegally, but that does not make them criminals who need to be bound hand and foot and treated worse than animals.”Tewari also questioned the Centre’s stance, stating, “What is the point of all those summits with @realDonaldTrump if @PMOIndia & @DrSJaishankar cannot ensure that our countrymen are not treated in the most humiliating and degrading manner?”A US military aircraft carrying 104 illegal immigrants from various states landed in Amritsar on Wednesday—the first such batch of Indians deported under Donald Trump’s latest crackdown on illegal immigration. The US action came just days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington for talks with President Trump.AAP MP from Anandpur Sahib, Malvinder Singh Kang, also condemned the US authorities, saying, “The way the US deported Indian nationals in handcuffs has dented the country’s image and projected us in a negative light across the world. This is a clear violation of human rights, and such treatment should not have been given to our youth. What is their fault? They simply went to the US and have committed no crime.”
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