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‘She’s Not a Criminal, She’s a Grandma’: Bay Area Community Rallies for 73-Year-Old ICE Detainee
Harjit Kaur, 73, detained despite 13 years of compliance and health concerns, prompting a protest with 200 community members demanding her release from ICE custody.
- Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old East Bay grandmother, was detained by ICE this week during a routine check-in after being asked to submit additional paperwork in San Francisco.
- Her detention comes after her 2012 asylum denial, despite consistently checking in with ICE twice yearly over a period exceeding 13 years and making multiple unsuccessful attempts to obtain travel documents from the Indian Consulate.
- Kaur, who has been a resident of the East Bay for over three decades and spent twenty years working at a small Berkeley business, is currently detained in Bakersfield without access to her necessary medications to manage serious health conditions including thyroid problems, chronic migraines, knee pain, and anxiety.
- Her family, along with around 200 local supporters and community groups, gathered today near the El Sobrante Sikh Gurdwara at the crossroads of Appian and San Pablo Dam to protest, while staff from Congressman Garamendi’s office are actively involved, ensuring efforts toward her release and the possibility of self-deportation.
- Supporters emphasize Kaur's compliance with immigration rules and express concern her detention risks her life due to health issues, noting ICE has struggled for 13 years to secure her travel documents.
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Bay Area grandma detained by ICE, held in Bakersfield despite compliance with immigration officials
Harjit Kaur, a 73-year-old undocumented grandmother from El Sobrante, showed up to a regular immigration appointment this week in San Francisco, and ICE would not let her go. "When we did hear from her, she was crying and begging us for help." Her family says she has been doing regular ICE check-ins for 13 years.
‘She’s not a criminal, she’s a grandma’: Bay area community rallies for 73-year-old ICE detainee
EL SOBRANTE, Calif. (KRON) -- Community members gathered Friday night to protest the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrest of a 73-year-old grandmother in California's East Bay, demanding she be released. Her family says she has no criminal record but was detained Monday during a routine immigration check-in. ‘The Long Walk’ book wasn’t originally by Stephen King More than a hundred people packed into an El Sobrante intersection…
ICE detains former Berkeley worker, 73, with health issues
A rally is being held Friday night to demand the release of Harjit Kaur, a grandmother who worked at Berkeley's Sari Palce for two decades and is now facing deportation despite what her family says is a record of complying with immigration rules.
ICE detains East Bay grandmother, 73, with health issues, no criminal history
ICE detains East Bay grandmother, 73, with health issues, no criminal history Indivisible West Contra Costa is holding a rally Sept. 12 in El Sobrante to demand the release of Harjit Kaur, a longtime Hercules resident facing deportation despite health issues and a record of complying with immigration rules.
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