Overview

• Kaur was taken into custody during a routine September 8 check-in at an ICE office in San Francisco after years of supervised reporting.
• ICE says she exhausted decades of appeals up to the Ninth Circuit and that agents executed a final removal order issued by an immigration judge in 2005.
• Her attorney and relatives say she has no criminal record, worked and paid taxes for decades, and was pursuing legal status before being deported.
• Kaur describes being shackled, denied her medications, given food she could not eat, and made to sleep without a proper bed while in custody and in transit.
• She was moved from a Bakersfield detention facility to a Georgia holding site and was deported to India on September 22, where she is now staying with family in Mohali.