After 33 years in the United States, 73-year-old Harjit Kaur was deported in handcuffs, shackled like a fugitive. Now sleeping on borrowed beds in Mohali, she’s left wondering how a country she served for decades turned its back without warning.
For more than three decades, Harjit Kaur built a life in America. She raised children, paid taxes, and never missed a routine immigration check-in. But when she walked into the ICE office for her latest appointment, everything changed. Advertisement
“They didn’t say anything. Just arrested me,” she recalled. “They locked me in a freezing room and gave me only a piece of aluminum foil to cover myself. I kept asking why, but no one listened.”
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) accused her of overstaying her visa. Her family insist