{"id":2960,"date":"2012-05-25T09:26:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T09:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.againstchildtrafficking.org\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2012-05-27T19:27:39","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T19:27:39","slug":"india-steps-in-for-kairi-shepherd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/india-steps-in-for-kairi-shepherd\/","title":{"rendered":"India steps in for Kairi Shepherd"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesnow.tv\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.timesnow.tv<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>25 May 2012, 2107 hrs IST, AGENCIES<\/p>\n<div id=\"storydiv\">\n<div>India today asked the United States to treat with &#8222;utmost compassion&#8220; the issue of deportation of Indian-American orphan Kairi Abha Shepherd who faces the prospect of being sent back to her country of birth where she was adopted by an American woman 30 years ago.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8222;It&#8217;s a tragic humanitarian issue and should be treated by the US with utmost compassion&#8220;, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai told reporters .<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>He said the Indian Consulate in San Francisco had written to concerned US authorities on the issue but was yet to get any response from them.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd, who has said that deportation would be like &#8222;death sentence&#8220; to her, under US laws can&#8217;t be sent back toIndia unless Indian government provides necessary travel documents for her.<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Before carrying out a deportation, ICE (US Immigration and Customs<br \/>\nEnforcement) must first obtain a travel documentto ensure the receiving country will admit the alien who is being returned,&#8220; ICE spokesperson Lori K Haley told PTI without commenting on the deportation case of Shepherd.<br \/>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: http:\/\/www.timesnow.tv 25 May 2012, 2107 hrs IST, AGENCIES India today asked the United States to treat with &#8222;utmost compassion&#8220; the issue of deportation of Indian-American orphan Kairi Abha Shepherd who faces the prospect of being sent back to her country of birth where she was adopted by an American woman 30 years ago. &#8222;It&#8217;s&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/india-steps-in-for-kairi-shepherd\/\" title=\"Read India steps in for Kairi Shepherd\">Weiter &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.againstchildtrafficking.org\/archive\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}