In gearing up its deportation plans, the Trump administration sent undocumented Indians home early Tuesday aboard a C-17 military plane.

India is the farthest destination so far for deportation flights in the Trump administration's latest drive against illegal migration.

It is the first time the Trump administration has arranged a military plane to deport Indians.

The plane carrying 104 deported Indian migrants arrived in Amritsar, a northern Indian city in the state of Punjab on February 5, 2025. These Indians had illegally entered the United States over the years and came from different Indian states.

Deportation is a sensitive topic in India, and the event has led to a surge in misinformation online. DW Fact check analyzed some of the viral claims.

Handcuffed and shackled Indians deported on a plane?

Claim: "This is the scene of the flight of migrant Indians who have been deported from the "land of free". They are handcuffed and have chains in their legs. …" wrotea Facebook user (archived here), posting a picture of handcuffed people sitting in a plane.

DW Fact check: False

The picture does not show Indian migrants deported from the US. It is an Associated Press image from January 30 (archived here), depicting people waiting in El Paso, Texas, to be deported to Guatemala. They are, indeed, wearing face masks and have shackles on their hands and feet but the image is unrelated to the newly deported Indians.

This is not the only misleading image of Indians being deported...

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