NewDelhi: The Mexican Authorities have deported over 300 Indians which includes a woman for illegally entering the country.
The deported 325 Indians landed in New Delhi early this morning, News18 reports .
“We landed around 5 am in the morning and the formalities took several hours before we could exit the airport around 1 pm,” Jashanpreet Singh, one of the deportees, said.
Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM) called it an unprecedented transatlantic deportation.
“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,” the INM said in a statement.
These Indians, the INM said, had entered Mexico illegally where sent back on a chartered flight, accompanied by federal immigration agents and Mexico’s National Guard.
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