Widow’s ordeal highlights struggles documented immigrants are also facing under Trump
Sunayana Dumala talks about her late husband, Srinivas Kuchibhotla, during a news conference at Garmin Headquarters in Olathe, Kan., Friday, Feb. 24, 2017. Witnesses say a man accused of opening fire in a crowded bar yelled at two Indian men to “get out of my country” before pulling the trigger. The attack killed one of the men and wounded the other, as well as a third man who tried to help. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
While undocumented immigrants face an onslaught of draconian actions from President Donald Trump’s administration, they aren’t the only ones caught in a messy and somewhat impossible system — something one tragic hate crime has made abundantly clear.
Srinivas Kuchibhotla, a 32-year-old Indian national, was living and working in the United States when he was targeted and murdered by a white man in February, while at a bar in Olathe, Kansas. The tragedy left his wife, Sunayana Dumala, also a 32-year-old Indian citizen, completely devastated. But the horror was far from over — after returning home to bury her husband, Dumala faced an impossible decision: return to the United States and face potential deportation, or abandon her home of a decade.
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