US military plane carrying deported Indians lands in Punjab

President Donald Trump has made the mass deportation of undocumented foreign nationals a key policy.

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The military aircraft, which left Texas late on Tuesday, is now in the city of Amritsar where authorities say they have put measures in place to process the deportees.

President Donald Trump has made the mass deportation of undocumented foreign nationals a key policy. The US is said to have identified about 18,000 Indian nationals it believes entered illegally.

Trump has said India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured him that the country would "do what's right" in accepting US deportations.

Authorities in Punjab say they have set up special counters to receive the deportees, adding the individuals would be treated in a "friendly" manner.

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