Overview
- U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns directed the administration to enable the return of Any Lucia Lopez Belloza within two weeks.
- The order came after the State Department said issuing a new student visa was unfeasible and ICE declined to arrange her return.
- Lopez Belloza was deported to Honduras on Nov. 22 despite a Massachusetts court’s 72-hour order barring removal or transfer issued the day before.
- A government lawyer previously apologized in court, attributing the violation to an ICE officer’s failure to properly flag the stay.
- The 20-year-old Babson College freshman, brought to the United States at age 8, remains in Honduras with her grandparents.