Harjit Kaur was taken from Bakersfield to Los Angeles where she was put on a flight to Georgia and thereafter to New Delhi, her advocate Deepak Ahluwalia said.
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At her relative’s home in Punjab’s Mohali in Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar district, 73-year-old Harjit Kaur remains numb following her recent deportation from the United States. The elderly woman appears disoriented and uncertain about what lies ahead, struggling to come to terms with her sudden return to India after years abroad.“I am in a state of shock. I can’t do anything to go back right now. My children, my family are there in the U.S. They will take some steps. The manner in which they (U.S. authorities) treated me was very bad. I was arrested by the U.S. authorities on September 8 in San Francisco. They handcuffed me, chained my legs and took me to Bakersfield, where I was uncuffed-unchained, where I was kept there for 8-10 days, and from there they moved me to another holding facility. Later, I was deported to Delhi,” said Ms. Kaur, who moved to the U.S. in the early 1990s as an undocumented immigrant with her two young sons and settled in California. Published - September 26, 2025 11:20 am IST
