A Dozen Bhutanese Immigrants Deported from PA – Many Families Still Don’t Know Where They Are

Pennsylvania is home to roughly 70,000 Bhutanese immigrants – the second largest Bhutanese community in the country. Local advocates say this community is facing unprecedented deportations under the current Trump administration.Bhutan is a small country in Asia landlocked between China, Nepal, and India. In 2008, Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees immigrated to the United States as part of a resettlement program after the Bhutanese government implemented a 'one nation, one people' ethnic nationalist policy and stripped thousands of Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees of their citizenship.Radio Catskill’s Kimberly Izar spoke with Mohan Seshadri, Executive Director of the Asian Pacific Islander Political Alliance in Pennsylvania, about the surge of deportations facing the local Bhutanese community.