Meenu Batra, the state’s only licensed Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu interpreter, says she was treated ‘like a criminal’
A Texas court interpreter who was arrested by ICE after living in the US for more than 35 years is speaking out from detention, saying she has been “treated like a criminal” and fears being deported to a country where she has never been.
Meenu Batra is the only licensed Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu court interpreter in the state, and has served as an interpreter for hundreds of people in immigration court.
Then, last month, immigration agents at Harlingen international airport stopped her and put her in handcuffs, and transferred her to El Valle detention facility in Raymondville.
being deported to a country where she has never been
The media is complicit by even calling this process deportation
She helped interpret forthousands of immigrants in court. Ya sounds about right for our “Justice” system. So a whole population won’t be the ability to communicate with the court… America everyone.
That is… vicious.
