"Paying workers so little that they have to choose between rent and groceries while the CEO rakes in $30 million is a form of violence too"

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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.

“It feels bizarre,” she said.
“I don’t know how else to put it. Here I am just staring at the wall wondering what exactly I’m doing here but also what is anybody doing here.”

Batra, 53, had spent almost her entire adult life in south Texas, raising four children there.

She had fled Indian pogroms against Sikhs in Punjab, and had arrived in the US in 1991.

In 2000, an immigration judge granted her a “withholding of removal” to India, concluding she was likely to face persecution there.

Now her lawyer worries the government plans to send Batra to a “third country” where she has never been

“I haven’t been able to cry much because nothing is making sense,”
she told the Guardian,
calling from the El Valle detention center where she has been held without explanation for a month.

In the interim, she said, she has to live in the horror movie version of Groundhog Day
– each day, she wakes up in a windowless warehouse block.

Because of her fluency in English, and her familiarity with many immigration policies,
Batra said she had been trying to help some of the other women who are detained with her to request confidential calls and access to attorneys.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/ice-immigration-court-interpreter-detained?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Belgium seizes arms shipment sent from Britain to Israel

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On this day, in 2026, America continued to suffer the ignorance, incompetence and massive corruption coming from the Trump regime.

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Go down with Trump, and it’s going to be really hard to keep living in America.

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