TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Union Home Minister Amit Shah has said the government will identify all illegal immigrants residing in the country and deport them as per the international law. “We will identify all the illegal immigrants and infiltrators living on every inch of this country and deport them as per the international law,” the BJP chief said in the Rajya Sabha.
This comes a day after the Central government has observed that it has adopted a multi-pronged approach to ensure effective surveillance and domination of international borders to check infiltration of illegal immigrants. The Ministry of Home Affairs had said in a written reply to Parvesh Sahib Singh in Lok Sabha that physical infrastructure like border fencing, floodlighting, construction of border roads and establishment of border outposts have been created.
It
had informed that border guarding forces conduct regular patrolling and
establish observation posts and carry out anti-tunnelling exercises to stop
illegal infiltration. The Ministry had
said that to deal with such illegal immigrants, the powers of the Central
government under Section 3 of The Foreigners Act, 1946, have been enforced to
detect detain and deport illegal foreign nationals.
