Since Donald Trump started his second term as US President, 23 Nepalis have been deported. During the deportation of undocumented immigrants, 4 women and 19 men were brought to Kathmandu and assigned to immigration.

The US administration submitted the list of those to be deported to the Nepali Embassy in Washington DC. After that, they were returned to Nepal by making a 'travel document' from the Nepali Embassy. All those who have been deported have been entrusted with immigration at Tribhuvan International Airport. 

Chief Immigration Officer of Airport Immigration Tirtharaj Bhattarai confirmed that 23 Nepali citizens have been deported from America since January 22. One of them has arrived in Kathmandu for the last time on Monday. Those who have been deported have been released by the immigration department after providing them with documents. The Human Trafficking Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police has also been interrogating the people who were left like that. 

The Trump administration has launched a campaign to arrest and deport undocumented immigrants, including Nepal, through America's 'Immigration and Customs Enforcement' (ICE). On January 22 and 24, 1/1 person arrived at the airport after being deported from America. 5 days later on January 29, 1 more person arrived. 2 on January 30th, 1 more on 31st. 3 people returned to Nepal on February 1, 3 more on February 5, 2 on February 6, 6 on February 8, 2 on February 16 and 1 on Monday (February 17). 

"According to the details since January 22, 23 Nepalese citizens have been deported from the US so far, we have been handing them over to the Human Trafficking Investigation Bureau of the police after giving them immigration papers," Bhattarai told Kantipur.

Human smugglers have been sent back to the United States for those who have gone through tourist visas and other programs and have been hiding there. Lured by organized gangs, Nepali citizens illegally enter the US by paying large sums of money. DIG Dinesh Acharya, spokesperson of Nepal Police, said that the Human Trafficking Investigation Bureau is also interrogating those who have been 'deported' from the US in the belief that there may be information or information about human trafficking gangs.

"The fact that gangs take Nepalis through various routes in Asia, Africa and Europe via South America after receiving large sums of money has been established through police investigations. The network of the gangs involved in this business is large, considering the suspicion that they may have gone through that network, we are also interrogating those who have been deported," Spokesman Acharya said, "If they have paid the money to the gangs and some of them are found on the list of deportees, we will investigate the crime." The information/information may be important for us. Nepali youths have been held hostage in various countries in Europe, Africa and South America in the hope of entering the US by paying money to gangs.

Earlier, 140 Nepalis were expelled from America in 4 years from 2021 to 2024. According to airport immigration, 38 Nepalis were deported by the US in 2021, 24 in 2022, 25 in 2023 and 53 in 2024. Looking at the number of people who have been deported in the last three weeks, the possibility of deportation has increased for many Nepalis who have been granted temporary residence permits despite being undocumented and other offenses.

ICE has accelerated the process of taking control of those who have received final orders for deportation but have not been arrested until November 24, 2024. In the first phase, ICE said those who entered the U.S. after June 24, 2015 and have been ordered to leave the U.S. are at risk of deportation without documentation. Such people who reached America during this period have been living under 'Temporary Protected Status' (TPS). It is estimated that more than 3,500 Nepalese are under the protection of TPS as the American court has ordered to expel them from the country.