The move follows a deal Mexico struck with the United States vowing to significantly curb US-bound migration in exchange for averting US tariffs on Mexican export
The deported Indians from Mexico arrived in New Delhi on Friday
“It is unprecedented in INM’s history – in either form or the number of people – for a transatlantic air transport like the one carried out on this day,” INM said in a statement.
The 310 men and one woman that INM said were in Mexico illegally were sent on a chartered flight, accompanied by federal immigration agents and Mexico’s National Guard. They arrived in New Delhi on Friday.
Most of the deportees were from Punjab, an Indian official said. Police will run checks if any of them had criminal history, another official said.
The backlog of migrants in southern Mexico has grown as officials have stopped issuing permits for them to cross the country, said Caitlyn Yates, a research coordinator at IBI Consultants who has studied increasing numbers of US-bound Asian and African migrants arriving in Mexico.
Prasanta Patnaik