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New Delhi, March 2, 2017 (dpa/NAN) Sunayana Dumala, widow of an Indian engineer who was shot dead in Kansas, on Thursday wrote about the concerns that most immigrant workers in the U.S. faces.
Her husband Srinivas Kuchibhotla, an engineer with GPS maker Garmin, was killed in a Kansas bar on Feb. 22 while his friend, Alok Madasani and bystander Ian Grillot who tried to intervene were injured.
Suspect Adam Purinton has been charged with first degree murder for the death of Kuchibhotla and two counts of attempted first degree murder.
Witnesses said he shouted, ‘get out of my country” before the gunshot.
In what she called her “first official blog post on Facebook”, Dumala wrote that her husband was an eternal optimist and she planned to return to the U.S. to fulfill his dreams.
She also raised questions that disturbed many foreign workers.
“On what basis do we decide whether a person is good or bad, and of course, it is not based on the colour of your skin, so what decides that.
“Many times, these issues are talked about for a few weeks and people tend to forget about them afterward, but the fight must go on toward eradicating hatred from the minds of people.
“Therefore, what is the government going to do to stop hate crime,” she said.
According to Dumala, the question on every immigrant’s mind is “do we belong here and is this the same country we dreamed of and is it still secure to raise our families and children here”. (dpa/NAN)
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Edited by Celine-Damilola Oyewole/Abdullahi Yusuf