Article about an adopted NRI who is a global orphan at 40.
★The TOI view:
After loosing her adoptive mom, Kairi has been disowned by both India and US. Orphaned at birth and loosing her adoptive mother at 8 was rough enough. But stateless at 17, after being disfranchised and disowned by both her adoptive country and her country of birth. How much more cruel can the world be? except of course to punish her with multiple sclerosis when she is fighting a pitiless legal system?
"She just fell between the cracks"
- Alan Smith (Kairi's attorney)
No word from New Delhi as yet.
★ In depth Analysis-
Kairi Abha Shepherd, now 30, who was adopted from Kolkata when she was only three months old by an American single mother from Utah, has been ordered to be deported to India, a country she has never live in or visited. Kairi's mother Erlene, an American do-good-er who adopted 11 children from across the world, many of them with disabilities, did not complete the paperwork and other formalities that would have made her a US citizen, before she died of cancer.
"All the information available to us on this case indicates that it has a clearly humanitarian dimension that cannot be ignored. As reports indicate, Kairi Shepherd was brought to the United States after adoption, as a baby, and has known no other home," the Indian Embassy
Looking at this article last Thursday,May 24Th on times global page moved me; not as in to gout on the streets and march bu to tell the world what injustice has been done with this poor soul.
★The TOI view:
After loosing her adoptive mom, Kairi has been disowned by both India and US. Orphaned at birth and loosing her adoptive mother at 8 was rough enough. But stateless at 17, after being disfranchised and disowned by both her adoptive country and her country of birth. How much more cruel can the world be? except of course to punish her with multiple sclerosis when she is fighting a pitiless legal system?
"She just fell between the cracks"
- Alan Smith (Kairi's attorney)
No word from New Delhi as yet.
★ In depth Analysis-
Kairi Abha Shepherd, now 30, who was adopted from Kolkata when she was only three months old by an American single mother from Utah, has been ordered to be deported to India, a country she has never live in or visited. Kairi's mother Erlene, an American do-good-er who adopted 11 children from across the world, many of them with disabilities, did not complete the paperwork and other formalities that would have made her a US citizen, before she died of cancer.
"All the information available to us on this case indicates that it has a clearly humanitarian dimension that cannot be ignored. As reports indicate, Kairi Shepherd was brought to the United States after adoption, as a baby, and has known no other home," the Indian Embassy
★What we make of it- Unalloyed response
Looking at this article last Thursday,May 24Th on times global page moved me; not as in to gout on the streets and march bu to tell the world what injustice has been done with this poor soul.
It is an exclamation, an ejaculation on the satanic behavior of both the governments. If one could envision what she has gone through, you will might as well understand why this concerns me.
Disconcerted is what I am. It really doesn't matter if the US government has rejected her, we are humble in nature, will it hurt to tweak the laws here and there for a person who is technically an Indian citizen? I feel the need for a response, an immediate one, as it is true as said by Kairi-
"No one is born illegal"
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