Trump administration ordered to return college student who was deported over Thanksgiving
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The administration has been ordered to facilitate the return of a college student who was deported over Thanksgiving despite a court order blocking her removal.
The Trump administration was ordered Friday to facilitate the return to the U.S. of the 19-year-old college student who was deported over Thanksgiving despite a court order blocking her removal.
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns directed the government to facilitate the return of Any Lucia Lopez Belloza within 14 days.
"Wisdom counsels that redemption may be found by acknowledging and fixing our own errors," Stearns wrote in his eight-page order. "In this unfortunate case, the government commendably admits that it did wrong. Now it is time for the government to make amends."
Lopez Belloza, who entered the U.S. from Honduras when she was 8 years old, was detained at a Boston airport by immigration authorities who told her she had a order of removal, which her lawyer said she was unaware of. Within hours of her arrest, a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S., but she was nonetheless deported to Honduras.
After Lopez Belloza's removal, Judge Stearns said he was giving the government an opportunity to "rectify the mistake," and recommended that she be issued a student visa.
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