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U.S. Deports 85 South Asian Asylum Seekers

HeadlineApr 06, 2016

Meanwhile, the United States has deported 85 refugees from Bangladesh, India and Nepal who were seeking asylum after fleeing repression and violence in their home countries. On Sunday, immigration advocates say they received a call from one of the men before the mass deportation, who said, “My family has already been visited by the police in India, where they abused my family and threatened that they will 'teach me a lesson' when I am returned.” After the deportation, Senator Bernie Sanders issued a statement, saying, “Deportation can be a death sentence to detained minors, parents and asylum seekers.” Some of the men deported from Corrections Corporations of America’s Florence Correctional Center in Arizona on Sunday night had participated in a series of hunger strikes last year to demand their release from for-profit detention centers.

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