Immigrants deported from the United States of America, being escorted after their arrival at the airport, in Ahmedabad, Monday, February 17, 2025
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Two flights with 33 natives of Gujarat deported from the U.S. for illegal stay landed at Ahmedabad airport from Amritsar on Monday (February 17, 2025), officials said.
They are part of a group of 112 Indians on board a U.S. military aircraft that landed at the Amritsar airport late on Sunday (February 16, 2025).
The arrival of the 33 deportees took the number of Gujarat residents sent back from the U.S. to 74 so far since February 6.
“Soon after they arrived at the Ahmedabad airport, the 33 immigrants, including children, were transported to their respective native places in Gujarat in police vehicles,” said Airport Police Station inspector SG Khambhla.
While three immigrants — two from Mehsana and one from Gandhinagar district — arrived at around 12 noon, 30 others landed on another flight at around 2 p.m., said Khambhla.
Police vehicles were deployed at the airport to transport the deportees to their native places.
On February 6, a plane carrying 33 immigrants from Gujarat, who were among 104 Indian deportees, landed at Ahmedabad airport, from where they were transported to their respective places, mostly in Mehsana, Gandhinagar, Patan and Ahmedabad districts.
Published – February 17, 2025 04:42 pm IST
