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Fingers crossed boys

Buta Singh hadnt eaten in days, and his body felt like it was vibrating with hunger as he sat up on his bunk bed and watched the prison guards storm in. The guards rounded up two dozen or so young men, all of them, like Singh, immigrants from the Indian state of Punjab. There was someone there to see them. Unbeknownst to Singh, the visitor was a representative from the Indian government. As he shuffled after the guards in his baggy navy-blue uniform the uniform hed been wearing for 10 months, issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Singh wondered whether the visitor was some higher-up from ICE, there to make a deal. Like Singh, the Punjabis were followers of Sikhism, a religion that emerged some 500 years ago in the region now bisected by the border between India and Pakistan. Sikhs are usually recognizable by their beards and long, turbaned hair. But the ones in this group had shorn their heads and faces to better go unnoticed on their journeys: by air from India to the New World, by land through Central America, and finally to the line dividing Mexico from the United States. Most were asylum-seekers and had passed interviews that determined they could stay in the country as their claims moved forward, and many had close family members living legally in the U.S. yet the government refused to release them. So, on April 8, 2014, the Punjabis at Texass El Paso Processing Center went on a hunger strike. It was about a week later when Singh, feeling shaky on his feet, walked into the meeting room where the visitor was waiting. He was startled to see a short, rotund man in a turban with his beard tied underneath his chin: a fellow Sikh from the Indian consulate in Houston. He was there to offer to send the detainees home. Should they decide otherwise, the diplomat said, they were wrong to think their hunger strike would sway the American authorities. Singhs surprise turned to anger. In India, he had been active in a fringe political party that advocates the creation of Khalistan, an autonomous Sikh state. The police in Punjab have a history of persecuting separatists, and Singh sought refuge elsewhere, he says, after they tortured him one too many times. Now he was in America seeking asylum from the Indian state, and here, facilitated by the U.S. government, was an emissary of that very state. (The Indian Embassy did not respond to requests for comment.) None of you are doctors, the diplomat said. None of you are engineers. Why would America want you? http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidnoriega/americas-quiet-crackdown-on-indian-immigrants

yeah. Didn't expect much from Obama anyway

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/demand-release-supreme-religious-leader-sikhism-jathedar-jagtar-singh-hawara-head-sri-akal-takhat OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE RESPONSE TODemand The Release of Supreme Religious Leader of Sikhism, Jathedar Jagtar Singh Hawara, Head of Sri Akal Takhat A response to your petition on the release of Jathedar Hawara Thank you for taking the time to sign a We the People petition on Sikh leader Jathedar Hawara. The President has made clear that our nation's deep respect for religious liberty and pluralism must not stop at our shores. In an address to the people of India last year, the President stressed the importance of these fundamental principles to both our democracies: "In both our countries, in India and in America, our diversity is our strength. And we have to guard against any efforts to divide ourselves along sectarian lines or any other lines. And if we do that well, if America shows itself as an example of its diversity and yet the capacity to live together and work together in common effort, in common purpose; if India, as massive as it is, with so much diversity, so many differences is able to continually affirm its democracy, that is an example for every other country on Earth." The United States remains committed to coordinating with governments around the world to promote religious freedom for all citizens. We encourage you to continue to use the We the People platform to petition the Administration to take action on the policy issues you care about, but we cannot comment here on the specific foreign criminal justice matter raised in your petition. You can read the full Terms of Participation to get a better sense of why We the People is designed the way it is, and to learn more about its guidelines for use. Thanks again for raising your voices. -- The We the People Team

uh still not getting how this is an attack on sikhs?

I kinda agree, dude had no job being there

Dude isn't gonna win, don't worry

I see you've tagged "Nexus", OP. Jus to confirm, I just checked on a N6- no Punjabi option.

they do?

A Sikh can vote for whatever party they want to. Whether you should is an entirely different matter.

Just watched and was wondering what you all thought of the President's speech.

You answered your question-Don't fit in to society and can't find men they want. And I mean, at the end of the day, whether or not they wear a keski is entirely up to them, iirc, rehat maryada says its an option for women.

Man, why y'all always rushing to ban everything that offends you? Grow up. Learn to have discussion. Come on

OK this brilliant idea

corny tbh

longer hunger strikes have been performed. Mohamed Soltan lasted longer and that was just last year

wait what?

If anyone needs someone to design flyers. Please, please do not hesitate to message me. I would gladly do this sewa.

The incident with bapu Surat Singh Ji has been explained multiple times

that's pretty much the only major improvement we need tbh

Nah, you're good fam just do ardas if it's troubling you

What are you saying dude? Who is imprisoning infants? How is this my fault as a turbaned Sikh?

You find it offensive, so it should be banned ?

There is no light side of the Force. the Force only has a dark side.

Dude who cares...it's a conspiracy video about a star wars movie. these conspiracy nuts will be spouting garbage about discussion topics much more serious than sci fi flicks till the end of time. pay them no mind.