Outrage in India over ‘inhumane’ US deportation of undocumented migrants
The incident has been condemned by Indian opposition politicians ahead of a meeting between Narendra Modi and Donald Trump in Washington
Images of them arriving handcuffed with their legs shackled on board the plane during their long flight from the US have angered many social media users.
Opposition politicians in India have protested against what they perceived to be Washington’s ill-treatment of their compatriots. Congress party leader K.C. Venugopal K.C. Venugopal staged a protest wearing handcuffs in parliament last week.
Pawan Khera, a spokesman for Congress, said on social media platform X last Wednesday: “Looking at the pictures of Indians getting handcuffed and humiliated while being deported from the US saddens me as an Indian.”
Prithviraj Sathe, an X user, bemoaned how the Indians were deported “from the US in the most inhumane way – handcuffed, leg-chained, treated like criminals. One toilet for a long-haul flight”.
