In this episode of Editorial, Mr. Sujit Nair discusses the deportation of illegal Indian immigrants from the US. On February 5, a US military plane carrying 104 deported immigrants arrived at Amritsar airport. Nationwide, there is uproar over the treatment these immigrants received on board. The opposition is questioning the Indian government over the way the US handled their deportation.
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[00:00:00] Namaskar! Welcome to another episode of Editorial. 104 illegal immigrants were deported to India from United States. There is a lot of controversy, lot of hue and cry about these 104 people being dumped back to India. Let's talk about this controversy, let's talk about this deportation, let's get right to the show.
[00:00:31] Now 19 women, 13 minor were among the 104 illegal immigrants who were deported to India. Now a lot of people say what are you? These people were handcuffed, these people had chains in their legs, they couldn't use the washroom.
[00:00:56] How fair is this? In fact, a very senior journalist in India wrote in his tweet that no issues if Indian citizens who entered America illegally are deported. But plenty of issues if some of them are sent back home with handcuffs, leg chained and struggles to use the washroom as has been alleged.
[00:01:23] Would that ever happen to an American citizen who entered India illegally? Deportation with dignity should be the message from government of India surely to the Trump government. This is what a very serious journalist said. Chalo, let us look at this scene impartially. You see, the fact remains that these 104 people who went to United States went illegally.
[00:01:52] It is not that they had a visa in hand. It is not that they had a travel visa or whatever visiting visa in hand and they went to United States and the United States said, No, no, no, no, no, no, no. It didn't happen that way. They went there illegally. Most of them through this route called the the Dunkey Route. Dunkey Route is that crossing the Panama jungle. That is how these people went to United States.
[00:02:18] You know, there are human traffickers who these people have claimed to have paid, allegedly have paid 30, 40, 50 lakh rupees to reach United States illegally. They ran away from their country that is India and went to United States for a better life. Now, leaving your motherland, going to United States for a better life is okay. I presume because if you are educated, if you want, that is your ambition. That is what you want to do.
[00:02:46] Get educated, get qualified enough and apply for a apply for a visa. Go get and live there. No problem here. You illegally migrated. Now, once you illegally migrate into that country, what are you expecting that country to do? Give you a nine course meal and book you first class in one of the top airlines and send you back to your country and say, thank you so much for illegally coming. But Baba, please go back.
[00:03:16] I will, you know, please don't come back again. Is that what you are expecting? Their country, their laws, you went there illegally. Now, the question about would we treat Americans like this? Listen, listen, let's be real. Let's be real. Let's not just talk. Let's not just argue for the sake of argument. What is the percentage of illegal immigrants that India has seen as far as America is concerned? Or as far as Canada or United Kingdom is concerned?
[00:03:43] Now, if the percentage is near nothing, then, you know, what are we talking about? There are one or two stray cases. So you, you, you expect them to be handcuffed and sent back. I mean, what logic is this? Compare the percentage of illegal immigrants, immigrants going from India to the United States versus the percentage of illegal immigrants coming from United States to India. Do you compare the percentage and say whether this argument holds water?
[00:04:11] The fact is what is wrong is wrong. Regardless of who does it. Personally speaking, to be very honest with you, I dislike Trump's policies. I dislike Trump's policies. I dislike the way Trump runs a country and I think that Trump is going to cause a lot of problems to this world. I personally feel that.
[00:04:33] But that doesn't mean that because, you know, deportation was done like this, you, you, you just say that, hey, how can you put the handcuffs? How can you, you know, not disrespect them? Disrespect them? You see, there are, you know, actually influences. You see the level in which this goes. There are influencers. There are YouTube influencers, YouTube videos, which actually teaches you as to how to, you know, do this dunk it, try to get it.
[00:05:10] You know, you know, a lot of politicians, lot of Congress politicians, lot of, uh, politicians, a lot of opposition, opposition leaders spoke about this particular incident. In fact, Congress, uh, Ranjit Rajan says that why were they brought back in handcuffs? Have they committed any crime?
[00:05:34] Uh, Priyanka Gandhi, uh, Congress MP said that, you know, is this the way one should be behaving with people that, uh, uh, they have been sent back to India with handcuffs and chains. Uh, Kanti Chitambaram says that, you know, uh, America has got its own sovereign authority to act as per the law against people who have entered their country without valid documentation, but they should do it, do it with dignity. Aray, Bhaiya, tell me something.
[00:06:03] You see, somebody enters your house without your permission. Somebody barges into your house without your permission. Now, how you treat that particular person is up to you. It is up to your upbringing. It is up to your culture. Either you will ask that person, Deko, Bhaiya, yeh tumne galat kiya, tum baar javo. That is possible. There is a possibility that you may push the man out and throw him out. That is a possibility.
[00:06:29] There is a possibility that you may grab him by his collar and throw him out of your door. That is a possibility. That is your reaction. That is the way you would do it. It is your discretion. Likewise, it is United States discretion. This is the way Trump thinks. For him, a trespasser is somebody he picked up by the collar, put a chain on leg, hand and all and send them back home. This is the way he reacts. What right do we have to ask? Number one. Number two.
[00:06:58] Did these people take India's permission before they illegally entered America? Did these people take India's permission? Were they there for some mission for India? Did they have anything to do with India? In fact, what they were doing is they were deserting India. You see, once they go as illegal immigrants, the chances of them coming back like I told you before is not possible.
[00:07:23] Or even if it is, it will take them decades to get a valid documentation, then get a valid documentation to get back to India and visit their motherland. That is the way it is. So they have deserted the country and ran away for better prospects. Illegally. What respect are you expecting for them? And if America treated them inhumanly, that is what possibly Trump administration is all about. But then it is their discretion.
[00:07:50] Now, Sanjay Singh says, you know, they were handcuffed in an inhuman way. When they landed in India, you were also not ready to give them respect. They were carried in prisoners van. Small countries are sending their own planes to bring back the immigrants. Hello. These people have deserted India. What do you want them to be brought back in?
[00:08:15] What respect are you talking about for people who who took illegal methods to enter another country for their own benefit? What respect are you talking about? You see, they have done a crime and they have been picked up and dumped back to their own country. There is no reason why the country that they deserted for another country, which is their motherland, need to give them any respect.
[00:08:45] There is no logic for to expect the their own country. That is the motherland, which they deserted to give them a red carpet. Welcome. I mean, what are we exactly talking about? I mean, let us keep politics aside for a minute. Let us think logic and let us think straight. And if you think logic and if you think straight, then I think these are people who committed a crime in another country.
[00:09:15] They were punished for it. They were treated the way they were treated and they are back in India. Now they were chained because that is the that is the culture of United States of America present administration. That is their culture and they treated them as per their culture and their their ways. What is what are we complaining about? What are we questioning about? And these people, these women, these people, I am very sad for those miners because they
[00:09:43] are the only innocent victims in this entire entire scene. They are the only innocent victims of 13 miners. They are innocent victims because they did what their parents forced them to do because they have spoiled the image of India in a foreign country.
[00:10:03] And sadly, like I said, it is sad that when senior journalists, thinkers of our country try and go out to criticize the way America handled their illegal immigrants. That is their wish. And that is the way they handled. Now, with all this before I end, let me ask you, how are we handling our illegal immigrants? Why are we not asking ourselves this question also?
[00:10:32] I will give you a story. Are we waiting for some more? The Supreme Court wraps Assam government for deportation delay. Assam government has kept a group of people who they claim are not Indian citizens. They have to be deported possibly to Bangladesh and others. They have a group of illegal immigrants. But you know what? They claim that they don't know where to send them. Are we going to send them? Are we going to send them? Are we going to send them?
[00:11:02] Are we going to send them? The Supreme Court says, what do you mean? What do you mean? What do you send them to wherever? But what is the point of detaining them in detention centers for an unlimited period? These people are detained in detention centers for an unlimited period. Instead, you are questioning America because they have hand chained their people, put them into an aircraft. You are questioning America.
[00:11:32] Your country, that is India, we are detaining illegal immigrants for unlimited time. Because I am kone maalum ki nar ba innega. That's okay. That's respect for illegal immigrants. That's respect for other people. Is that how it is? Is that fair? You can't have double standards. You can't have double standards.
[00:12:00] If you are asking questions to America, you should ask questions to oneself too. A. B. If a criminal is caught in a particular country and it is proven that that person is a criminal, whether he is an illegal immigrant or a murderer or a thief or whatever, it is that country's prerogative to handle the way that country wants to handle that person. You may agree to it or not, that is different. But it is that country's prerogative. You went with your own free wish.
[00:12:30] You went without informing your own country, your own motherland. You went without taking proper documentation from the country you are visiting. You went. You went with your own country and you went with your own country. The consequences you face. There is nothing wrong with it as far as I am concerned. This is my opinion. A lot of you may agree to me. A lot of you may not. Till I see you next time. Namaskar. Stay ahead with our cutting edge news app.
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