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Desperate youths from Maoist heartland hit US wall

by Janakraj Sapkota in The Kathmandu Post, June 25, 2023Bharat Budha, chair of Putha Uttarganga Rural Municipality’s ward 10, knows that many youths from his village have made it to the United States via ‘tallo bato’—backdoor route—and that many are still on the way. He also knows that eight of them have been deported from the country and that they have lost a cumulative Rs45 million in the process. The deported youths say that they…