Third US plane with 112 illegal Indian immigrants lands at Amritsar airport

The first US military aircraft landed in Amritsar carrying 104 illegal Indian immigrants on February 5. (File photo/PTI)

A US military aircraft carrying at least 112 illegal Indians immigrants landed at the Amritsar airport in Punjab late on Sunday night.

This is the third such flight that has brought deportees as part of a crackdown by the Donald Trump administration against illegal immigrants.

The plane landed at the airport at around 10 pm.

Of the 112 deportees, 44 are from Haryana, 33 from Gujarat, 31 from Punjab, two from Uttar Pradesh and one each from Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, sources told PTI.

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Families of some of the deportees reached the airport to receive them. The deportees will be allowed to head to their homes after completion of all formalities including immigration, verification and background checks. Arrangements have been made for the transportation of deportees to their destination.

The development comes a day after second batch of 119 Indians were returned from the US on a military plane on late Saturday evening.

In the second batch, among the deportees, 65 were from Punjab, 33 from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, two each from Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Most of the deportees were in the age group of 18 to 30.

Earlier on February 5, the first US military aircraft landed in Amritsar carrying 104 illegal Indian immigrants. Of them, 33 each were from Haryana and Gujarat, and 30 from Punjab.

(With inputs from PTI)