New Delhi/Chandigarh, Feb. 16 -- A plane carrying 119 illegal immigrants from the US landed at the Amritsar airport on Saturday night, the second such batch of Indians to be deported by the Donald Trump administration as part of its promised crackdown on illegal migration. Before the arrival and another scheduled deportee flight for Sunday created a lot of furore and controversy across the country with political parties crossing swords.

Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann questioned the move to land another plane at the Amritsar airport, as he accused the Centre of trying to defame Punjab as part of a conspiracy and sought to know under which criteria the Amritsar airport was chosen to land the second aircraft, BJP hit back accusing the ...