Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor tells The Indian Express that India could also deport illegal Bangladeshi immigrants if their nationality is verified, adding many who claim to be Indian are dubbed by some as Bangladeshi without proving it.

As a US military aircraft carrying more than 100 Indian citizens who allegedly illegally migrated to the US arrived in Amritsar on Wednesday, Congress MP Shashi Tharoor said that the US has the right to deport a person if they are staying there illegally.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Tuesday said US President Donald Trump deporting illegal Indian immigrants is "not the first" deportation and that it "won't be the last". A US military aircraft carrying about 200 Indian nationals, who had illegally entered the US, is likely to land at the Amritsar airport on Wednesday afternoon.