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Worse Than Trump: India is Deporting Its Own Citizens [1]

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Date: 2025-09 

The world is rightly horrified by how US President Trump is deporting people, including minors, without due process. Something similar is underway in India, but worse and under the radar. Even since the border skirmishes between India and Pakistan this year, Indian authorities have been rounding up Muslim citizens and deporting them on the spurious grounds that they either Pakistani or Bangladeshi infiltrators.

Abhishek Saha is an Indian journalist and author of No Land's People. He joins us on the show to discuss the devastating impact of India's forced deportations.

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Credits:

Presented by Aman Sethi

Edited and produced by James Battershill, Ayodeji Rotinwa & Carla Abreu

Theme song ‘Odyssey’ performed by Edward Abela

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

01:44 What's happening in India?

05:02 Why Bangladesh?

07:05 The global pushback against migration

12:39 Punishing inherited people

14:42 Who determines what people are 'undesirable'

17:50 Identifying outsiders

21:48 Abusing bureaucracy

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