India to deport all illegal migrants, says minister
Governing BJP party is accused of anti-Muslim bias as it targets immigrants in a series of states
17 July 2019 - 17:13
New Delhi — India will identify and deport illegal immigrants from across the country, the interior minister said on Wednesday, stepping up a campaign that critics say could stoke religious tension and further alienate minority Muslims.
An exercise to identify alien immigrants from Muslim-majority Bangladesh has been going on in the northeastern state of Assam for years, but Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist-led government has taken it up in earnest...
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