Report: India to Take Back 18,000 Indian Migrants Living in U.S. Illegally

Report: India to Take Back 18,000 Indian Migrants Living in U.S. Illegally


Indian officials are preparing to repatriate roughly 18,000 Indian migrants who have been living in the United States illegally, according to a recent report.

“People familiar with the matter” informed Bloomberg that the Indian government is prepared to work with President Donald Trump and his administration to “identify and take back all its citizens” who have been in the U.S. illegally.

“As part of India-US cooperation on migration and mobility, both sides are engaged in a process to deter illegal migration,” Randhir Jaiswal, a spokesperson for India’s Ministry of External Affairs, told Bloomberg. “This is being done to create more avenues for legal migration from India to the US.”

The majority of the Indians who have been living in the U.S. illegally are reportedly “youth

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