73-year-old Indian woman deported from US after 33 years

A 73-year-old woman, who was deported from the US recently after spending more than three decades there, on Saturday said no one should go through the ordeal she went through, and expressed her desire to be reunited with her family in America.

Kaur, who had unsuccessfully applied for asylum in the US, was deported to India after being detained by immigration authorities in California, her advocate said earlier. She was detained by immigration



authorities in California on September 8 after she went for a routine check-in, triggering protests and concerns among her family and community members.

Kaur reached the US in 1992 as a single mother with two sons. Her asylum case was denied in 2012, but since then, she “faithfully reported” to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in San Francisco every six months for more than 13 years, her daughter-in-law Manji said after her deportation.