Sikhs in America: “Perpetually Foreign, Automatically Suspect, and Potentially Terrorist”

Gurupreet Kaur, a six-year-old Sikh girl, died while attempting to cross the southern border into the United States in June 2019. She had traveled from India with her mother and had hoped to reunite with her father, who was already seeking asylum in New York. Gurupreet and her mother were in their final stretch of walking from Mexico to Arizona, but their journey together ended in the Arizona desert when they separated while trying to find water to survive the unbearable heat. Many immigrants have perished in that same strip of desert while attempting to enter the United States.