Chandigarh, Feb. 15 -- As a second US flight carrying 120 deported Indians is set to land in Amritsar today, the political debate over the deportation of illegal immigrants has reignited, media reports said.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann criticised the Centre for directing the flights to Amritsar rather than other cities, while Congress MLA Partap Singh Bajwa targeted the Mann-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government for failing to curb human trafficking over the past three years, reported India Today.

Bajwa pointed to the Punjab Prevention of Human Smuggling Act, 2012, which aims to regulate travel agents and curb illegal migration.

Questioning the state government's enforcement of the law, he asked, "Can Chief Minister Bhagwant Man...