US judge gives Trump administration three weeks to return deported student
The Guardian • • nation
Key Points:
- A US federal judge in Boston has given the Trump administration three weeks to correct the wrongful deportation of 19-year-old college student Any Lucia López Belloza to Honduras, recommending the issuance of a student visa to her.
- López Belloza, a Honduran national brought to the US as a child seeking asylum, was deported despite a court order preventing her removal, after she was arrested at Boston’s Logan airport while traveling home for Thanksgiving.
- The judge, Richard Stearns, stated the simplest resolution would be for the State Department to issue López Belloza a visa, otherwise he may order her return with potential contempt charges against the government.
- The deportation occurred after a government lawyer apologized for an ICE officer’s error in
