Ahmedabad, 6 February 2025: A flight carrying 33 Gujaratis, among the 104 Indian immigrants deported from the United States for illegal immigration, landed at Ahmedabad airport from Amritsar on Thursday morning, officials said.
Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) R.D. Oza, overseeing security arrangements, said police vehicles were deployed to transport the deportees to their respective hometowns. “A plane carrying 33 Gujarati immigrants arrived in the morning. They were among those deported from the US. We arranged police vehicles to take them home,” Oza told reporters at the airport.
The deportees, including women and children, avoided speaking to the media and left in police vehicles. Sources said most of them belonged to Mehsana, Gandhinagar, Patan, Vadodara, and Kheda districts.
The group was part of a larger batch of 104 Indians who arrived in Amritsar on Wednesday aboard a US military aircraft. Their deportation is linked to the US government’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
Family members of the deportees claimed they were unaware of how their relatives had reached the US. Former Deputy Chief Minister Nitin Patel expressed sympathy for the returnees, stating that they had traveled abroad in search of better job opportunities and should not be treated as criminals.
Deputy Inspector General of Police (CID-Crime) Parikshita Rathod confirmed that the authorities had no immediate plans to question the deportees.
