Must improve ecosystem to end illegal migration: Modi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has assured the Trump administration that New Delhi was not only ready to take illegal migrants from the country back but was also ready to work with the US to end the ecosystem abetting this migration.
Answering questions in Washington DC, Modi said, “Those who stay in other countries illegally do not have any legal right to be there. As far as India and the US are concerned, we have always said that those who are verified and are truly the citizens of India — if they live in the US illegally — India is ready to take them back.”
Since 2009, the US has deported some 15,000 people in batches. The Trump administration has shared a list of another 18,000 people who are to be deported.
Modi said the people who migrated to the US illegally were from ordinary families. “They are shown big dreams and most of them are misled and brought here,” he said.
Modi suggested India and US should attack the entire system of human trafficking. “Our bigger fight is against that entire ecosystem, and we are confident that President Trump will fully cooperate with India in finishing this ecosystem,” Modi added.
Later, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri told the media that India had sought the cooperation of the US to find out more details about such rackets. “If need be, through institutional cooperation between the law enforcement authorities and intelligence organisations of the two countries to try and do something about these ecosystems that enable this particular phenomenon,” Misri added.
