While undocumented immigrants face an onslaught of draconian actions from President Donald Trump’s administration, they aren’t the only ones caught in a messy and somewhat impossible system — something one tragic hate crime has made abundantly clear.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32-year-old Indian national, was living and working in the United States when he was targeted and murdered by a white man in February, while at a bar in Olathe, Kansas. The tragedy left his wife, Sunayana Dumala, also a 32-year-old Indian citizen, completely devastated. But the horror was far from over — after returning home to bury her husband, Dumala faced an impossible decision: return to the United States and face potential deportation, or abandon her home of a decade.
Credit: thinkprogress.org
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