Reports that deported migrants had faced mistreatment stirred an uproar in India ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Washington.

US authorities doubled down on the deportation of 104 Indian nationals with the border patrol chief releasing a video that showed Indian nationals, handcuffed and shackled, being hustled into a C-17 military aircraft.

Guatemala has pledged a 40% increase in deportation flights carrying Guatemalans and migrants of other nationalities from the United States, President Bernardo Arévalo announced Wednesday during a press conference with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

The first flight carrying migrants to Guantanamo Bay arrived Tuesday evening, a U.S. Transportation Command official said.

The Trump administration has begun using military aircraft to underscore its determination to deport undocumented migrants.

President Donald Trump's administration is flying detained migrants to Latin American countries, but online claims that an image shows hundreds of people crammed inside one such aircraft are false. The photo dates to 2021 and shows a US Air Force flight evacuating people from Afghanistan after Taliban insurgents retook power.

Military planes are being used for deportations to expedite the process quickly and efficiently, with little concern for costs, as part of Donald Trump's national emergency on illegal immigration.