After living in the United States for more than three decades, 73-year-old Harjit Kaur from Punjab was deported to India this week, a decision immigrant rights advocates have described as harsh and unnecessary. Kaur landed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport on September 23. According to her lawyer, Deepak Ahluwalia, she was suddenly taken from Bakersfield to Los Angeles on Sunday night, placed on a chartered flight to Georgia, and then flown to New Delhi. Advertisement

Ahluwalia described her journey as deeply distressing, marked by “prolonged shackling, confinement in bare concrete cells, and denial of basic amenities.” He added that Kaur was not allowed to say goodbye to her family or collect her belongings, calling the process “inhumane.”

Her family had pleaded for two si

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