Harjit Kaur deported: Sikh woman gives harrowing details of ordeal; slept on floor

NEW DELHI: Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old Sikh pistillate who spent 30 years successful the United States, shared her ordeal with the ICE aft she was arrested and deported to India."Their behaviour was precise bad. I was arrested connected 8 September...

I was arrested and taken to Bakersfield, wherever I stayed for 8-10 days. I was past taken to Arizona, from wherever I was sent to Delhi…,” she said portion talking to ANI.Kaur said she was moved to a holding installation successful Georgia connected September 19 and deported to India connected September 22, ne'er getting to sojourn her US location oregon bid a due farewell to household and friends. Reflecting connected her situation, she said, "My children implicit determination volition bash something.

I cannot bash anything."She added that she spent 60-70 hours successful detention without a bed, forced to slumber connected the level contempt treble genu replacements. She was fixed crystal to instrumentality medicine and denied nutrient she could eat, with guards blaming her for her inability to devour the provided sandwich. Kaur added that she was fixed chips and cookies successful food.She has filed aggregate appeals up to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, each of which were unsuccessful.

Kaur moved to California successful 1991 with her 2 young sons and lived and worked successful the US portion making respective unsuccessful asylum applications. During the play media briefing, the ministry of outer affairs (MEA) highlighted that 2,417 Indian nationals person been deported oregon repatriated from the United States since January 2025. MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said, arsenic quoted by ANI, "The fig of deportations that person happened from the United States since January; 2417 Indian nationals are deported oregon repatriated from the United States...

We privation to beforehand ineligible pathways of migration. India stands against amerciable migration."Jaiswal further emphasised the government’s stance connected ineligible migration: "Whenever determination is simply a idiosyncratic who does not person a ineligible presumption successful immoderate state and helium oregon she is referred to america with documents, and if determination are claims that helium oregon she is an Indian national, we bash the inheritance check, corroborate the nationality and past we are successful a presumption to instrumentality them back... This has been happening with deportations from the United States.

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