{"id":71236,"date":"2025-04-21T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T06:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/21\/bhutan-nepal-us-immigration"},"modified":"2025-04-21T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T06:00:30","slug":"nepali-speaking-bhutanese-refugees-in-limbo-after-deportation-from-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71236","title":{"rendered":"Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees in limbo after deportation from US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights experts voice alarm as refugees expelled by the US, not welcomed by Bhutan and rejected by Nepal<\/p>\n<p>When Narayan Kumar Subedi received a call from his daughter in the United States three weeks ago, he expected to hear news of his two children\u2019s life abroad, perhaps even plans for a long-awaited reunion. Instead, he was told his 36-year-old son Ashish, a Bhutanese refugee resettled in the US, was being deported.<\/p>\n<p>Ashish had been caught in a domestic dispute that led to police involvement. After several days in detention without proper legal support, he was caught up in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/18\/people-detained-deported-trump-immigration-crackdown\">Donald Trump\u2019s migration crackdown<\/a> and deported to Bhutan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/21\/bhutan-nepal-us-immigration\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights experts voice alarm as refugees expelled by the US, not welcomed by Bhutan and rejected by NepalWhen Narayan Kumar Subedi received a call from his daughter in the United States three weeks ago, he expected to hear news of his two children\u2019&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1786,241,61,1083,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhutan","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-us-immigration","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71237,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71236\/revisions\/71237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}