India, Nov. 12 -- The Department of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump has put Daniela Bittner, one of the late Peanut the Squirrel's owners, in an immigration jail, NBC News reported. She is now facing possible deportation to Germany.

The euthanisation of Peanut the Squirrel in 2024 triggered a national outrage.

Immigration officers arrested Bittner in mid-October at a small airport near New York's border with Pennsylvania. DHS said in a statement that Bittner was arrested because she "chose to overstay her welcome in defiance of our nation's laws."

Bittner, 30, was nabbed by ICE because she is an undocumented German national who "overstayed her welcome," the Department of Homeland Security said, per the New York Post.

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