WASHINGTON: India is ready to take again its residents residing illegally in the USA, international minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar has mentioned after assembly the highest diplomat of President Donald Trump’s new administration.
Jaishankar’s remarks got here after a gathering with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Tuesday (Jan 23) a day after Trump’s inauguration.
Trump issued a raft of executive orders this week that purpose to clamp down on unlawful immigration and expedite his purpose of deporting hundreds of thousands of immigrants.
Jaishankar mentioned New Delhi was open to taking again undocumented Indians and was within the technique of verifying these in the USA who may very well be deported to India.
“We would like Indian expertise and Indian abilities to have the utmost alternative on the world degree. On the similar time, we’re additionally very firmly against unlawful mobility and unlawful migration,” Jaishankar informed a gaggle of Indian reporters in Washington on Wednesday.
“So, with each nation, and the US isn’t any exception, we have now at all times taken the view that if any of our residents are right here illegally, and if we’re certain that they’re our residents, we have now at all times been open to their respectable return to India.”
Jaishankar was responding to a question on information stories that India was working with the Trump administration on the deportation of round 18,000 Indians who’re both undocumented, or have overstayed their visas.
