February 07, 2025 | New Delhi:
CPI(ML) vehemently condemns the dehumanising and violent treatment of Indian migrants subjected to deportation by the Trump administration in the United States. The harrowing and heart-wrenching accounts of our fellow citizens—shackled, chained, and handcuffed during a soul-crushing 40-hour journey—serve as a chilling reminder of the colonial-era subjugation. This grotesque spectacle, where migrants are treated as criminals—stripped of their dignity, bound like captives, and subjected to conditions that mirror the horrors of colonial-era transportation—lays bare the deeply racist and inhumane nature of the Trump regime’s immigration agenda.
Equally unforgivable is the deafening silence of the Modi-led BJP government, which has failed to raise even a semblance of protest against this blatant abuse of Indian citizens. The Modi government’s deafening silence in the face of this abuse is not mere negligence—it is complicity. While the BJP peddles jingoistic rhetoric about “nationalism” and “protecting Indian pride,” it abandons Indian migrants to the mercy of racist deportation regimes.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brazen embrace of Donald Trump—whom he calls a “dear friend” and for whom he openly campaigned during U.S. elections—now stands exposed as a betrayal of India’s migrant workers. Trump, in turn, repays this sycophancy by vilifying Indian migrants and deporting them in chains. This shameful reciprocity lays bare the BJP regime’s servility to the U.S. imperialist interests, mirroring the historical capitulation of the Sangh Parivar to British colonial rulers. Just as the RSS’s ideological ancestors bowed to colonial rulers, today’s Sangh Parivar kneels before the U.S. empire, trading the dignity of Indian migrants for hollow photo-ops and empty slogans of ‘nationalism.’"
We demand the Indian government to reject the inhuman treatment of Indian migrants and take immediate action to ensure their dignified return. The government must deploy necessary logistical support to facilitate the safe and respectful return of all Indian migrant workers facing deportation. We reject the Modi government's complicity and Trump's racist agenda and declare:
No worker is illegal! No human is disposable!
_Issued by Central Committee, CPIML Liberation
