Sikhist man with a brain tumor retained by American immigration

For more than two months, Paramjit Singh, 48, a green card holder in the United States, which is fighting a brain tumor and heart disease, is being held at a retention center by US immigration authorities.

G -N Singh, a holder of an Indian passport, has lived in the US on a green card since 1994. He has lived in Indiana with his family, who owns a chain of gas stations. His wife and two children are US citizens.

But the Singh is now facing the threat of deportation.

On July 30, he was detained by immigration authorities at the Chicago O’Hare International Airport as he returned from a trip to India and has been in custody since.

US immigration and customs authorities (ICE) have cited two cases in two decades as reasons for his detention, but Mr Singh’s family and lawyer say there are no active cases against him.

They blame immigration authorities for using old cases to delay its release and claim that it lacks appropriate medical attention, despite the brain tumor and heart condition.

“Paramjit Singh does not receive medical attention.

The BBC asked ICE for response to these allegations.

D -Singh regularly visits India without problems with immigration, his niece Kiran Virk told the BBC. This time his family waited seven o’clock at Chicago Airport for his arrival.

G -Ja Virk tells that immigration officials told them that D -N -Singh was detained in a 1999 case. He was kept at the airport for five days despite family appeals before being moved to Clay District Center in Indiana.

The case includes G -H Singh, using a public phone without paying. The court records show that he had served 10 days in prison and paid a $ 4.137.50 fine. The sentence has blocked his citizenship in the US.

Mrs. Virk claims that immigration authorities said at a hearing that Mr. Singh was still faced with one and a half years of sentence, with only 10 days rejected.

Immigration authorities also say that Singh was convicted of a crime in Illinois in 2008, but his family claims that there are no such accusations against him.

The Virk said the authorities have indicated the falsification case to keep the release of a $ 10,000 bond provided by an immigration judge.

She said that a private detective hired by the family did not find criminal files for a person named Paramit Singh in the country, which suggests that the authorities may have confused him for someone else.

The BBC has asked ICE to respond to the family’s claim that there is no falsification case against G -N Singh in Illinois.

G -N Sing’s lawyer told the BBC that he plans to challenge the detention by calling it “unethical.”

“We are also taking legal steps to block it from US deportation,” G -n -Angeles told the BBC.

Meanwhile, the family of Singh is increasingly worried about his health, as his second brain tumor surgery is slowing down due to retention, says Dz Virk.

She says that the family is struggling to connect with the Singh at the detention center, where limited phones and poor health make communication difficult.

The case of G -n Singh will be heard on October 14.

His detention comes against the backdrop of a broader repression than the US President Donald Trump’s administration on immigration, and especially illegal immigrants to the United States.

Trump said he wanted to deport “the worst of the worst”, but critics say that immigrants without criminal files that follow a proper process were also directed.

In September, Hargit Kaur, a 73-year-old grandmother who spent more than three decades living in the United States has been deported to Indiaigniting anger in the Sikhist community.

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