Plane departed Texas and landed in Amritsar as Washington prepares to welcome Indian PM Narendra Modi

A US military plane carrying 104 deported people has landed in India as part of the Trump administration’s policy of deploying the armed forces to enforce its trumpeted mass deportation programme.

The migrants, the first to be flown to India by military aircraft, were sent on a C-17 aircraft from San Antonio in Texas to the southern Indian city of Amritsar.