<p>Chandigarh: Shackling the deportees sent back to India in a US military aircraft was "a matter of great shame for the country", Punjab Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/bhagwant-mann">Bhagwant Mann</a> said on Thursday.</p>.<p>He also slammed the Haryana government for taking the deportees hailing from the state in "police prisoner vans" from the Amritsar airport to their respective hometowns.</p>.<p>A <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/united-states">US</a> military aircraft carrying 104 illegal immigrants from various states landed in Amritsar on Wednesday, the first such batch of Indians deported by the Donald Trump administration as part of a crackdown against illegal immigrants.</p>.<p>Of them, 33 each were from Haryana and Gujarat, 30 from Punjab, three each from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh.</p>.Mann govt should resettle illegal immigrants from Punjab deported by US: BJP's Harjit Grewal.<p>The deportees claimed their hands and legs were cuffed throughout the journey and they were unshackled only after landing at the Amritsar airport.</p>.<p>"We deeply regret what the US did... Sending our citizens back in handcuffs and chains is a matter of great shame for our country," Mann said in a post in Punjabi on X.</p>.<p>"Instead of soothing the wounds of Indians deported from a mentally and economically shattered US, the Haryana government, under Modi ji, took them back in police prisoner vans, which was equivalent to rubbing salt in their wounds," he added.</p>.<p>A C-17 Globemaster aircraft of the US Air Force carrying illegal Indian immigrants landed at the Amritsar airport on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The US action came days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington to hold wide-ranging talks with Trump.</p>.<p>After completion of all formalities, including immigration, verification and background checks, the deportees were taken to their respective hometowns. </p>
<p>Chandigarh: Shackling the deportees sent back to India in a US military aircraft was "a matter of great shame for the country", Punjab Chief Minister <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/bhagwant-mann">Bhagwant Mann</a> said on Thursday.</p>.<p>He also slammed the Haryana government for taking the deportees hailing from the state in "police prisoner vans" from the Amritsar airport to their respective hometowns.</p>.<p>A <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/tags/united-states">US</a> military aircraft carrying 104 illegal immigrants from various states landed in Amritsar on Wednesday, the first such batch of Indians deported by the Donald Trump administration as part of a crackdown against illegal immigrants.</p>.<p>Of them, 33 each were from Haryana and Gujarat, 30 from Punjab, three each from Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh, and two from Chandigarh.</p>.Mann govt should resettle illegal immigrants from Punjab deported by US: BJP's Harjit Grewal.<p>The deportees claimed their hands and legs were cuffed throughout the journey and they were unshackled only after landing at the Amritsar airport.</p>.<p>"We deeply regret what the US did... Sending our citizens back in handcuffs and chains is a matter of great shame for our country," Mann said in a post in Punjabi on X.</p>.<p>"Instead of soothing the wounds of Indians deported from a mentally and economically shattered US, the Haryana government, under Modi ji, took them back in police prisoner vans, which was equivalent to rubbing salt in their wounds," he added.</p>.<p>A C-17 Globemaster aircraft of the US Air Force carrying illegal Indian immigrants landed at the Amritsar airport on Wednesday.</p>.<p>The US action came days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Washington to hold wide-ranging talks with Trump.</p>.<p>After completion of all formalities, including immigration, verification and background checks, the deportees were taken to their respective hometowns. </p>