As the Department of Homeland Security calls Meenu Batra an illegal alien from India, her attorney Deepak Ahluwalia said no due process was followed in the arrest of Batra, a legal interpreter, who has been working in the US since 1992. In an interview with the CNN, Ahluwalia said Meenu Batra was never asked to appear at any ICE office in the last 26 years and all of a sudden without any prior notice, she was arrested at an airport when she was traveling for work. The DHS said Batra came to the US illegally at an unknown date and location and she was served a final order of removal in 2000.
Ahluwalia said Batra was granted a withholding of removal which meant she could not be deported to India. But the Trump 2.0, Ahluwalia said, found a loophole that if an individual can not be removed to their home country, they could be deported to a third country. But the administration has not disclosed what they are planning to do further as they arrest first and plan later.
