NYT: U.S. Deported Bhutanese Who Were Here Legally. They Are Now Stateless
The New York Times published an in-depth feature on the Nepali-speaking Bhutanese American community that has built deep roots in Harrisburg, Penn. Since March, ICE has arrested over 60 Bhutanese Americans in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, New York, Georgia, Idaho, and other states without due process or any shred of transparency and fundamental civil liberties.
Over a dozen people, who are fathers, caretakers, and community leaders, were deported to Bhutan, handed over to India, then sent to Nepal, and eventually have ended up in refugee camps and forced into statelessness. They are without any place to call home.
In response to local communities who are uniting against ICE’s abductions, members of Congress and state officials, including Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro, have been speaking out and demanding transparency and due process.
Each drop of water helps to make an ocean – Nepali Bhutanese proverb
Take action to demand the release and return of disappeared community members by:
- Learning more from Asian Refugees United about how ICE is targeting, abducting, and disappearing Bhutanese refugees.
- Signing on as an organization to this solidarity letter from Alliance of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA).
- Citizens of India can sign on this solidarity appeal letter to the Indian Government created by the South Asian American Policy Working Group
- Sending a letter to your members of Congress in minutes by using this form from Stop AAPI Hate.
