73-year-old Harjit Kaur from Punjab was sent back to India this week after living in the United States for more than 30 years.Kaur arrived at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on September 23.

Her lawyer, Deepak Ahluwalia, said she was suddenly taken from her home in Bakersfield to Los Angeles on Sunday night. From there, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) put her on a chartered flight to Georgia, and then she flew to New Delhi.

Ahluwalia said that she was not treated well during her journey. She was kept in handcuffs for a long time, locked in cold, empty cells, and was not given basic needs. “She wasn’t even allowed to say goodbye to her family or take her things,” her lawyer said, calling the deportation “inhumane.”

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