Sharing the heart wrenching ordeal of her time in detention in the US awaiting deportation to India, 73-year-old Harjit Kaur has termed the behaviour of immigration officials “very bad”.

“Their behaviour was very bad. I was arrested on 8 September… I was arrested and taken to Bakersfield, where I stayed for 8-10 days. I was then taken to Arizona, from where I was sent to Delhi… My children over there will do something. I cannot do anything,” she told ANI.

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Kaur was deported to India on Tuesday after being detained by immigration authorities in California as part of the US government’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

Her deportation has sparked widespread outrage and sympathy. Kaur, who lived in California for more than three decades, was detained by US Immigration an

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