Over 15,000 Indians living illegally in the US have been sent back to the country since 2009, with the most number of Indians being deported by the US was in 2019. The statistic was revealed by External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, as he made statement on the deportation of 104 illegal Indian immigrants by the US.
“The process of deportation (by the US) is not new… it has been there for years. This is not a policy applicable to only one country. Our focus should be on the crackdown on illegal migrants…We are engaging with the US to ensure deportees are not mistreated,” the minister said.
According to the data shared by Jaishankar, a total of 15,756 illegal Indians living in the US have been deported to India since 2009.
2,042 Indians were sent back to India in 2019, the most in a year. It was followed by 1,889 in 2020, the year when the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world.
Here is the year-wise data of Indians deported from US:
2009: 734
2010: 799
2011: 597
2012: 530
2013: 515
2014: 591
2015: 708
2016: 1,303
2017: 1,024
2018: 1,180
2019: 2,042
2020: 1,889
2021: 805
2022: 862
2023: 617
2024: 1,368
2025 (till February 5): 104
