Article 6XEBK Bhutanese Nepalis fled ethnic cleansing for the US. Trump is returning them to the refugee camps

Bhutanese Nepalis fled ethnic cleansing for the US. Trump is returning them to the refugee camps

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Stephen Starr in Reynoldsburg, Ohio
from US news | The Guardian on (#6XEBK)

They lost their Nepalese citizenship years ago and are now living in a stateless limbo' amid Trump's deportations

Aasis Subedi, a Bhutanese Nepali refugee, finds himself back in the same Nepal refugee camp he spent part of his youth, once again stateless.

Last month, Subedi and two dozen community members from across the US were deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) officers to Bhutan, the tiny Himalayan country where they had never previously set foot. At least four, including Subedi, were immediately rejected by Bhutanese authorities and then expelled to India, where they fled to a refugee camp in Nepal.

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