State and statelessness in South Asia

Refugees are seen as ‘unwanted’ people and a drain on limited resources.

After assuming office as the President of the United States, Donald Trump has not only reversed some of the Biden administration’s foreign policies but also started ostentatious deportation of students and migrants, violating the US laws. Many Indians illegally working in the US were deported, and 12 Bhutanese refugees who had settled in the US as a part of a UN-led third-country settlement to resolve the long-pending Bhutanese refugee issue also suffered the same fate.