No change from past procedure for US deportees’ flight: Jaishankar in Parliament

• A standard operating procedure used by the US since 2012 for deportation of illegal immigrants provides for use of restraints, external affairs minister S. Jaishankar told Parliament on Thursday. He said there had been no change in that procedure for the flight of Indian deportees that landed in Amritsar on Wednesday

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• It is in our collective interest to encourage legal mobility, discourage illegal movement: S Jaishankar in RS.

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