Overview
- Federal filings say ICE arranged a Friday flight from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, to Harlingen, Texas, to facilitate Any Lucía López Belloza’s return.
- Prosecutors wrote that once she lands she remains subject to a final removal order and ICE is authorized to detain and remove her again.
- Her attorneys say she will not board if immediate detention is likely and argue the government is treating the return as an empty formality.
- The Justice Department moved to dismiss her habeas case and vacate the return order, asserting Massachusetts lacks jurisdiction and directing any challenge to the Southern District of Texas.
- Judge Richard G. Stearns denied an emergency bid to ensure her return to Massachusetts without detention after earlier ordering her return to remedy ICE’s admitted violation of a court stay.