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Among the many Nepali citizens who flew abroad to fulfill their dreams, 177 Nepalis landed at the Tribhuvan International Airport after being deported by the US government since Donald Trump took office.
Most of them were young people, who risked their lives to get to the United States by taking money, selling houses, and through smuggling gangs. But their journey was unsuccessful. Some were captured at the border, some suffered prison torture, and eventually all were forced to return to their own lands. This is not just a story of individual failure, but rather a sign of a deep failure of our state system, where a dream that could not be tied by our own country was broken by a foreign country.
Now those young people, who once flew in the international sky on a dream ship, are now looking at the Tribhuvan airport with disappointed eyes from the window of the plane. Looking at them, the country should give respect and opportunity, not just sympathy. Those Nepalis who were returned from America are not criminals, rather they are citizens made foreigners by the structural weakness of this country. Now those same hands need to be handed not sacks of contraband, but the reins of progress. The time has come for all of us not to reject those young people, but to support them. Now they should be able to live with self-confidence, not self-blame. It is important to tell them - you are back, not lost. A dream that withered in a foreign land will now bloom in its own soil.
The local government, federal agencies and even the society should join hands in skill-based programs, technology transfer in agriculture, concessional loans and social rehabilitation plans for the returning Nepalis. This is not only a restoration, but also an opportunity for national renaissance.
This is not a time to wipe away tears, it is a time to get up and move forward. Your footsteps can now become history, where the dark story of smuggling ends, and a new chapter of labor and creation begins. So let's get up, unite and build our own country.
– Santosh Simkhada , Tokyo Japan
