{"id":71906,"date":"2026-04-16T11:55:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/texas-immigration-court-interpreter-detained-by-ice-says-they-want-to-make-me-disappear\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T11:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T16:55:28","slug":"texas-immigration-court-interpreter-detained-by-ice-says-they-want-to-make-me-disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/texas-immigration-court-interpreter-detained-by-ice-says-they-want-to-make-me-disappear\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas immigration court interpreter detained by ICE says \u2018they want to make me disappear\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meenu Batra, the state\u2019s only licensed Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu interpreter, says she was treated \u2018like a criminal\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/texas\">Texas<\/a> court interpreter who was arrested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement\">ICE<\/a> after living in the US for more than 35 years is speaking out from detention, saying she has been \u201ctreated like a criminal\u201d and fears being deported to a country where she has never been.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/16\/ice-immigration-court-interpreter-detained\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meenu Batra, the state\u2019s only licensed Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu interpreter, says she was treated \u2018like a criminal\u2019 Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A Texas court interpreter who was arrested by ICE after living in the US for more than 35 years is speaking out &#8230; <a title=\"Texas immigration court interpreter detained by ICE says \u2018they want to make me disappear\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/16\/texas-immigration-court-interpreter-detained-by-ice-says-they-want-to-make-me-disappear\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Texas immigration court interpreter detained by ICE says \u2018they want to make me disappear\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}