In a dramatic show of solidarity, opposition lawmakers in India staged a protest outside the Parliament, some even wearing shackles, to condemn the reported mistreatment of Indian immigrants during their deportation from the United States. The protest took place on February 6, 2025, with banners reading, "Indians in shackles, will not tolerate the insult." This demonstration highlights the outrage over the inhumane treatment faced by the deportees and the call for the Indian government to take action. Watch the full coverage of this protest and the political uproar surrounding the U.S. deportation issue.
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00:00We will not tolerate this atrocity.
00:04We will not tolerate this atrocity.
00:08Answer the third government.
00:11You will have to answer.
00:15Well, look, it's not the first time we've had people deported.
00:18It's just that the media has suddenly woken up to the story
00:20because Mr. Trump has done it perhaps a bit quicker than people expected.
00:24But already last year, under the Biden administration,
00:27we had over 1,100 Indians being deported back.
00:30If you're illegally in the U.S., the U.S. has a right to deport you.
00:33And if your identity as an Indian is confirmed,
00:37then India has an obligation to accept you.
00:40So in both cases, there really isn't very much debate.
00:43However, it wasn't good to hear that they were brought back forcibly
00:46in a military plane and handcuffed and so on.
00:49That was quite unnecessary.
00:51It should have been enough to either put them on a commercial aircraft
00:53or a civilian plane and send them back.
00:55You can, if you want to do a mass deportation, do civilian charters.
00:59That would have been the more humane thing to do.
01:02They may, strictly speaking, have broken your laws by coming into your country.
01:06But by and large, they have no bad intentions.
01:08They're not criminals.
01:09They're not convicted of anything else.
01:11They're there to make a better life for themselves,
01:14which they have done by violating your laws.
01:16So you can send them out, no problem.
01:18But handcuffing them and putting them in a military aircraft
01:21and sending them in this way, I think India should say
01:24this is not entirely advisable.
01:26Parliamentary Standing Committee on External Affairs, you are heading that,
01:29and is there a response from MEA to the panel
01:32that they are working on a law for safe immigration?
01:35Your thoughts regarding that, is that true?
01:37First of all, you know, what goes on in the committee
01:41is not supposed to be discussed publicly.
01:43But I should say that the question of an immigration bill
01:46has been public knowledge for several years.
01:48When I chaired the committee from 2014 to 2019,
01:51I had asked for an immigration bill
01:53because the existing immigration bill in India is 1983
01:56and is grossly out of date.
01:58It has not done anything to take into account
02:00the realities of immigration in the last 40 years.
02:03And therefore, an updated bill was necessary.
02:05It needs to take into account the various challenges
02:08that have arisen in recent years that we have seen.
02:11Deportations of illegal migrants is only one part of it,
02:14but safe and orderly and legal migration,
02:17migration of guest workers with the right to come back,
02:20migration of people for permanent settlement,
02:22migration of those going, for example,
02:25to countries like the Gulf where they're taken in bulk
02:27by contract laborers.
02:29What are their rights? What are their privileges?
02:31What are the duties of the embassies in all these places?
02:33There are a number of issues. It's not a small matter.
02:36And the government has been promising us a bill since 2016.
02:402015 or 16 when Sushmaji had written to me
02:43confirming that they were working on a bill.
02:45It is now almost nine years and there is still no bill in sight,
02:48so it is widely known that the committee and members of the committee
02:51have been demanding that this be expedited.
02:53They have promised that within a fairly short period of time,
02:56there will be a bill that will be presented for public consultations
02:59after inter-ministerial consultation.
03:01And I have urged that we should all be taken into confidence
03:04on how this is being discussed.
03:06But it's not specifically linked to the current problem of deportation alone.
03:10It's an old issue.
03:11Some of the leaders have said that the Indian military campaign
03:14were handcuffed. Do you have any confirmation regarding that?
03:17Well, people say they've seen pictures. I personally have not.
03:19I had a busy day yesterday. I didn't see any of the footage.
03:22But if it is true, and I've certainly read interviews with a couple of people
03:25who claim they were handcuffed, then it is really unacceptable.
03:28There is no need to treat Indians like this.
03:30They are citizens.
03:31They have a right to be living in their own country with dignity.
03:35Yes, they should not have broken the law.
03:37But handcuffing them on the way back, I think, is totally unnecessary.
03:40And this kind of thing, to be honest, is what gives, I think,
03:44the whole process of deportation such a bad name.
03:46Some Latin American countries have made it very clear
03:48they will not accept military aircraft and they will not accept handcuffing.
03:51And India should, I think, take a similar stand.
04:16India should take a stand. The PM should take a stand.
04:18Is this a way to do it?
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