New Delhi, May 22 -- Declaring a zero-tolerance policy toward cross-border infiltration, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday announced that the Centre will launch a comprehensive "Smart Border" project within the year to seal the nation's borders and deport every illegal migrant.

Addressing the Border Security Force (BSF) personnel at the BSF Investiture Ceremony 2026 at Vigyan Bhawan, Delhi, Shah asserted that illegal migration is a deliberate conspiracy to engineer artificial demographic shifts. He stated that the government will identify and deport every single illegal infiltrator to safeguard India's demographics.

To achieve this, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) will implement an impenetrable security grid across the country'...