For Gopal Dahal, it’s a life of never-ending displacements.

When he was barely 1, his family was forced out of Bhutan, the small Himalayan country where they were a discriminated minority facing ethnic cleansing. After spending over a decade in a refugee camp in neighboring Nepal, Mr. Dahal and his family made their way to Pennsylvania for a new beginning, after the United States initiated a program to resettle tens of thousands of Bhutanese refugees.

But this spring, as part of the crackdown on immigrants by the Trump administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents picked him up from his apartment as his aging parents watched. He was detained for weeks based on felonies for which he had already served time in jail, and then deported to the country of his birth, which did not want him.

So began a saga of deportations with no clear end in sight.

Upon his arrival in Bhutan, Mr. Dahal, who belongs to the Lhotshampas ethnic minority in Bhutan, was deported again. Security agents picked him up at the country’s international airport, put him in a car and drove him to the border with Nepal. Then they pushed him across.

Mr. Dahal is now at a refugee camp, effectively stateless. He is hiding out there because Nepal is fining deportees like him for entering the country illegally and preparing documents to deport them again.

“I have no home to stay at, no food to eat and no work to survive,” he said at the refugee camp. “I don’t know how long this will continue.”

Mr. Dahal is one of at least two dozen Bhutanese refugees who had settled in the United States, but who were picked up and deported to a life of uncertainty, interviews with Nepali officials and community elders at the refugee camp suggested.