Her lawyer Deepak Ahluwalia said that Meenu Batra has never been called to the ICE office in the last 26 years.

Since the Department of Homeland Security considers Meenu Batra an illegal alien from India, her lawyer 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 CNN, Ahluwalia said that Meenu Batra had not been asked to appear at any ICE office in the last 26 years and suddenly without any prior notice, she was arrested at an airport while she was traveling for work. DHS said Batra came to the United States illegally at an unknown date and location and was granted a final order of removal in 2000.Ahluwalia said Batra was granted a stay of deportation, which meant he could not be deported to India. But Trump 2.0 added a loophole that if a person cannot be removed to their home country, they can be deported to a third country, Ahluwalia said. But the administration has not revealed what they plan to do next as they make arrests first and plan later. Ahluwalia explained that when a person is granted status that means he or she cannot be removed from the country from which he or she came, he or she can remain in the U.S. unless DHS files a case in the same court that granted relief to reopen the case. This happens only when there is a serious case against the person.Another possibility is that DHS may request to reopen the case, citing changed circumstances in that country. But DHS did not follow these proper procedures in Meenu Batra’s case. Ahluwalia said the administration is doing this in many cases where they are trying to take people to a third country.The lawyer said DHS cannot send Batra to India but did not say where they plan to send him.Meenu Batra, 53, came to America in 1991 after her parents were murdered in India. She spent most of her life in America, married, gave birth to four children, and continued to work as an interpreter, knowing Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi and English. He was arrested at Harlingen International Airport on March 17 and has been in ICE custody since then.