""I feel like a ghost," Karki said in Nepali. "Living in the shadows. No home, no name, not even an identity card that says I belong anywhere.""
""When you see a sudden shift in removal practices like this, it usually signals that some kind of government-to-government understanding exists," Villarosa said. "What we're trying to learn is what that understanding looks like.""
"For Karki, nearly 9,000 miles (14,500km) away, it was already morning. He was in hiding in south Asia, his exact location withheld for his safety, his face breaking into pixels as he watched his daughter sleep."
A stateless man, deported to Bhutan after more than nine months in detention, watches his newborn daughter by video from hiding thousands of miles away. He was born in a refugee camp in Nepal and has never lived in Bhutan, placing him at risk of persecution and renewed statelessness despite his parents' Bhutanese origin. Human rights advocates identify an increasing pattern of deportations to countries with little or no connection under recent U.S. policies. Bhutan had long resisted repatriating Bhutanese refugees, and no public repatriation agreement between the countries exists, prompting legal and FOIA efforts to clarify the removal practices.
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