A 73-year-old East Bay grandmother, Harjit Kaur, was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials during a routine check-in this week. On Friday night, her family and an expected 200 community members will stage a protest demanding her release.
The protest will be held at 5 p.m. Friday at the intersection of Appian Way and San Pablo Dam Road in El Sobrante (below the El Sobrante Gurdwara).
Kaur has lived in the East Bay for more than 30 years. She currently lives in Hercules but worked for two decades at Sari Palace on University Avenue in Berkeley and regularly attended the El Sobrante Sikh Gurdwara. She was detained on Monday after ICE asked her to come to the San Francisco office to turn in additional paperwork. On Tuesday she was taken to a detention center in Bakersfield…