By Anjali Sharma
WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump Administration on Saturday continue the ongoing US crackdown on undocumented immigrants resulted in the detention of a 73 years old Sikh grandmother has triggered an outpouring of emotions across borders.
Media reported that Harjit Kaur, 73, who has lived in California for more than three decades, was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials on September 8 during a routine check-in.
Kaur had applied for asylum in the US multiple times, with her last application rejected in 2012.
Her arrest has drawn sympathy and sadness from the Sikh community across California and beyond.
US immigration authorities had directed her to report to them every six months. She was detained in San Francisco during one such scheduled visit.
According to her attorney, Kaur had complied with ICE requirements for more than a decade.
Her arrest has sparked protests. Some 200 people gathered in El Sobrante to demand her release, carrying placards reading “Hands off our grandma” and “She’s no criminal.”
Kaur, a mother of two and grandmother of five, has lived in the United States since 1992. She has no criminal record.
She had appealed to the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals after her asylum case was denied in 2007.
She was required to check in regularly with ICE, which granted her temporary legal authorization to work. Despite her compliance, she was detained on September 8 at the San Francisco ICE facility because of her final order of removal, she.
Kaur was transferred to an office in Fresno and later taken in handcuffs to a detention center in Bakersfield, where she arrived at 3 am the next day, according to her lawyer.
Ahluwalia alleged that during her brief detention in Fresno,
Kaur was kept in a cell without a bed or chair, only a toilet without toilet paper. When she requested water, officials allegedly told her she could not have any.
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