Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said thegovernment will identify all illegal immigrants residing in the country anddeport them as per the international law. “We will identify all the illegalimmigrants and infiltrators living on every inch of this country and deportthem as per the international law,” the BJP chief said in the Rajya Sabha. Thiscomes a day after the central government observed that it had adopted amulti-pronged approach to ensure effective surveillance and domination ofinternational borders to check infiltration of illegal immigrants.

The ministry of home affairs had said in a written reply toParvesh Sahib Singh in Lok Sabha that physical infrastructure like borderfencing, floodlighting, construction of border roads and establishment ofborder outposts have been created.It had informed that border guarding forcesconduct regular patrolling and establish observation posts and carry outanti-tunnelling exercises to stop illegal infiltration. However, some illegalimmigrants are still able to enter into India in a clandestine andsurreptitious manner, mainly due to difficult mountainous and riverine terrainin parts of the long international borders.The ministry had said that to dealwith such illegal immigrants, the powers of the central government underSection 3 of The Foreigners Act, 1946, have been enforced to detect detain anddeport illegal foreign nationals.

The exercise to update NRC 1951 is being conducted underspecial provisions in respect of State of Assam under The Citizenship Act, 1955and The Citizenship (Registration of Citizens and issue of National IdentityCards) Rules, 2003, it had read.