After spending more than three decades in the United States, 73-year-old Harjit Kaur from Punjab was deported to India this week in what immigrant rights advocates are calling a cruel and unnecessary act of enforcement.

Kaur reportedly arrived at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on September 23. In an Instagram post, her lawyer Deepak Ahluwalia said she was suddenly taken from Bakersfield to Los Angeles Sunday night, and put on a chartered flight by

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to Georgia and from there to New Delhi.

Ahluwalia claimed her journey back was marked by harsh treatment, including prolonged shackling, confinement in bare concrete cells, and denial of basic amenities. “She was not even allowed to say goodbye to her family or collect her belongings

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