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Stephen Starr in Reynoldsburg, Ohio

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

close up of a hand holding a pencil over a sheet of paper that reads 'people come here to be free'
A Bhutanese refugee practices writing in English ‘people come here to be free’ during a US citizenship class in Columbus, Ohio, in 2018. Photograph: Martha Irvine/AP

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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