In her first interview after being released from ICE detention for over six weeks, Indian-origin Texas woman Meenu Batra told CBS News exclusively that she is afraid that she could be arrested again. Batra had been living in the US since 1991 after she fled India following the killings of her parents in Punjab. In 2000, Batra was given a court protection that she could not be deported to her country of origin because of the fear of persecution and she was allowed to legally work in the US.
A single mother of four, including an Army soldier, Batra has been working as a court interpreter as she knows Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi languages apart from English. As she was traveling to Wisconsin for work on March 17, she was detained by ICE agents at an airport in Texas. The Donald Trump administration said she was staying in the US illegally and could be deported to a third country -- not India.
