In the middle of Trump's immigration retail boards, Bhutani deported are missing

The news of deportations arrived as a trickle. A member of the Bhutanian community in Texas was taken away. Another took off in Idaho. Then one in Georgia.

“People call us in panic to inform us that ice arrest have started,” said Robin Gurung, a community leader in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, an important center of life for Bhutani refugees in America.

In view of the limited information from immigration officials and a cultural reluctance within the Bhutan community, in order to discuss the loss of relatives, Mr. Gurung was only able to estimate the number of people who were arrested and deported from his area and the rest of the state.

“From here at least 12,” he recently said in an interview in a dumpling house near the Capitol of the state of Pennsylvania. He took a break and emphasized the uncertainty before he continued. A dozen “that we know.”

When the Trump administration accelerated its controversial deportation program and mainly aimed at undocumented immigrants from Mexico and Central and South America, confusion became a common topic. What happens in the community of Bhutan, a piece of a country near India and Nepal, has a similar opaque uncertainty and its own annoying circumstances.