2026年4月30日 美国东部时间下午6:30 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）
作者：沙内尔·考尔、基耶拉·弗雷泽
一名长期在德州法院任职的译员、四名子女的母亲于3月被联邦移民官员逮捕，其律师向CBS新闻证实，她已于周四获释。
“我们欣喜若狂。这六到七周太漫长了，”米努·巴特拉的律师迪帕克·阿卢瓦利亚告诉CBS新闻，“我们知道这一刻终会到来，但只希望不会花这么久。”
巴特拉的四名成年子女均为美国公民，3月17日，她在前往威斯康星州密尔沃基出差的途中，在德克萨斯州哈林根市的谷际机场被联邦移民官员逮捕。
阿卢瓦利亚表示，一名联邦地区法官于周四下令立即释放巴特拉。据阿卢瓦利亚透露，法官称巴特拉的正当程序权利遭到侵犯，因为她在未收到事先通知、未接受约谈或未经过正式程序的情况下被逮捕。
阿卢瓦利亚称，他们正通过巴特拉最小的儿子贾斯珀为她申请绿卡，贾斯珀目前在美国陆军服役。阿卢瓦利亚表示，他们将申请加快审批流程，希望能在未来四到六个月内获批。
“战斗还没有结束，”阿卢瓦利亚告诉CBS新闻，“我们已经救出了米努，但现在的问题是留住她，确保她符合资格的所有救济形式都能在她身处美国期间得到裁决，并对抗任何试图将她遣送至她毫无过往联系或关联的第三国的企图，我们将为此战斗到底。”
阿卢瓦利亚说，除非正式发出通知并在律师在场的情况下进行约谈，否则巴特拉不会再次被逮捕。
巴特拉出生于印度。十几岁时，她的父母因锡克教信仰被杀害。大约35年前她逃往美国并申请了庇护。
2000年，她获得了一项名为“驱逐扣留”的移民身份，这与庇护有所不同。巴特拉担任认证法院译员已有20多年，她的印地语、旁遮普语和乌尔都语技能在全美范围内都有需求。
本月早些时候，巴特拉在位于德克萨斯州雷蒙德维尔的美国移民和海关执法局埃尔瓦莱拘留所接受了CBS新闻的采访，她表示自己对移民身份的理解是“我在这里，我是合法的，不会被驱逐，所以我没有什么可担心的。我可以生活，可以工作。这就是我想做的全部。”
CBS新闻已联系美国国土安全部请其就法官的裁决置评。在本月早些时候发给CBS新闻的一份声明中，国土安全部称巴特拉为“非法外国人”，并补充道“就业授权并不赋予任何类型的合法身份。”
她的子女阿姆丽塔、卢卡斯、阿里扬和贾斯珀此前告诉CBS新闻，没有她在身边，他们在德克萨斯州布朗斯维尔附近的家中“感觉很不对劲”。
“家人都因为她获释而欣喜若狂。我几乎每天都和她通话，这次经历让她身心俱疲。你了解她的，她在拘留期间的遭遇、不得不目睹的事情、遭受的痛苦，以及被带走的方式，都对她影响极大，在情感和精神上都击垮了她，我只希望她能从过去一个半月的经历中走出来，”阿卢瓦利亚告诉CBS新闻。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/lawyer-texas-mother-over-month-ice-detention-this-has-broken-her/
Texas mother of 4 released from ICE custody after more than a month in detention
April 30, 2026 6:30 PM EDT / CBS News
By Shanelle Kaul, Kierra Frazier
A longtime Texas court interpreter and mother of four who was arrested in March by federal immigration officers, was released Thursday, her attorney confirmed to CBS News.
“We are overjoyed. It’s been a long six to seven weeks,” Meenu Batra’s attorney, Deepak Ahluwalia, told CBS News. “We knew that this moment would come. We were hoping it wouldn’t take as long.”
Batra, whose four adult children are U.S. citizens, was arrested March 17 by federal immigration officers at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas, while on her way to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on a work trip.
Ahluwalia said that a federal district judge on Thursday ordered Batra’s immediate release. According to Ahluwalia, the judge stated that Batra’s due process rights were violated because she was arrested without prior notice, interview or a formal process
Ahluwalia said they are working on getting Batra a green card through her youngest son, Jasper, who is enlisted in the U.S. Army. Ahluwalia said they’ll ask to expedite the application and hope to get approved in the next four to six months.
“The fight is not over,” Ahluwalia told CBS News. “We’ve gotten Meenu out, but now it’s a matter of keeping her here, making sure that all forms of relief that she is eligible for are adjudicated while she’s sitting here and fighting any attempt to send her to a third country that she has no previous relationship or no association with, and we will fight to the end to that.”
Ahluwalia said Batra cannot be arrested again unless a formal notice is given and an interview is conducted in the presence of an attorney.
Batra was born in India. When she was a teenager, her parents were killed because of their Sikh religion. She fled to the U.S. roughly 35 years ago and applied for asylum.
In 2000, she was granted an immigration status known as “withholding of removal,” which differs from asylum. Batra has been a certified court interpreter for more than 20 years, and her language skills in Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu are requested nationwide.
Barta spoke to CBS News earlier this month while in detention at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s El Valle Detention Facility in Raymondville, Texas, saying her understanding of her immigration status was that “I am here, and I am legal and will not be removed, so I have nothing to worry about. And I can live and I can work. And that is all I wanted to do.”
CBS News has reached out to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for comment on the judge’s ruling. In a statement provided to CBS News earlier this month, DHS called Batra an “illegal alien,” adding that “employment authorization does not confer any type of legal status.”
Her children, Amrita, Lucas, Aaryan and Jasper previously told CBS News that it didn’t “feel right” to be at their home near Brownsville, Texas, without her.
“Family is very obviously over the moon in terms of her being released. I was speaking to her almost on the daily, and this has broken her. And you know her, her experience while in detention, the things that she had to see, the things that she suffered, the manner in which she was picked up obviously weighs a lot on a person and has really emotionally and mentally affected her, and so I can only hope that she can come out of what she had to experience for the last month and a half,” Ahluwalia told CBS News.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/lawyer-texas-mother-over-month-ice-detention-this-has-broken-her/
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