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Agency. India is preparing to take back Indian citizens living illegally in the United States. After meeting with top diplomats from US President Donald Trump’s new administration, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said that India is ready to take back its citizens living illegally in the United States.
The Indian External Affairs Minister made the remarks after meeting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington on Tuesday, a day after Trump took office. Trump issued an executive order this week to crack down on illegal immigration and accelerate his goal of deporting millions of immigrants. Jaishankar said New Delhi is ready to take back undocumented Indians and is in the process of verifying those of its citizens in the United States who can be deported to India.
“We want Indian talent and skills to get maximum opportunities on a global scale. We are also strongly opposed to illegal movement and illegal immigration,” Jaishankar told a group of Indian journalists in Washington on Wednesday. “We have always taken the view that any of our citizens who are illegally present in any country of the world, including the United States, if they are our citizens, we are always open to their legal return to India.”
Jaishankar was responding to reports that India is working with the Trump administration to deport 18,000 Indians. “Secretary Rubio emphasized the Trump administration’s desire to work with India to advance economic ties and address concerns related to irregular migration,” US State Department spokesman Tommy Bruce said in a statement after the meeting on Tuesday.
India is the world’s fifth-largest economy and is enjoying the world’s fastest-growing gross domestic product (GDP), but millions of Indians still migrate abroad every year in search of better opportunities. Its diaspora is spread across the globe, with the United States being the top destination of choice.
The latest US census shows that the Indian-American population grew by 50 percent in the 2020s to 4.8 million, while more than a third of the nearly 1.3 million Indian students studying abroad in 2022 were in the United States.
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