Explained: Can India really deport illegal immigrants after final NRC list | Explained News, The Indian Express

Explained: Can India really deport illegal immigrants after final NRC list | Explained News, The Indian Express

Written by Kabir Firaque |New Delhi |Updated: July 18, 2019 5:42:13 pm

Explained: Can India really deport illegal immigrants after final NRC list

The final NRC is scheduled on July 31. Those left out will have a series of options for appeal, which is a long haul. Only after that will the question of deportation come up, if at all.

People wait to check their names on the draft list at the National Register of Citizens (NRC) centre at a village in Nagaon district, Assam. REUTERS

On Wednesday, Home Minister Amit Shah said in Rajya Sabha that the government would deport illegal immigrants from “every inch of the country’s soil”. This comes weeks ahead of the scheduled publication of the final National Register of Citizens(NRC) in Assam, an exercise that Shah and other BJP leaders have promised to extend to the rest of the country.