Amid US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigration, a second US plane carrying 119 deported Indian nationals landed at Punjab’s Amritsar airport around 10 pm on Saturday. Among them, 67 are from Punjab, 33 from Haryana, eight from Gujarat, three from Uttar Pradesh, two each from Goa, Maharashtra, and Rajasthan, and one each from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday kept up his attack on the Centre over the landing of US planes carrying illegal Indian immigrants at Amritsar airport and asked it not to make the holy city a “deport centre”. A few days before, February 5, a US military aircraft carrying 104 illegal Indian deportees landed at the Amritsar airport, because of which on Friday, Mann questioned the decision to land another plane at the Amritsar airport and accused the Centre of trying to defame Punjab as part of a conspiracy.