she missed multiple opportunities<\/a> to appeal, Lopez Belloza said her previous attorney told her there was no removal order.\n <\/p>\n\n \u201cIf I had been aware of my 2017 deportation order, I would not have traveled with my valid passport,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI would have dedicated significant time and effort during the past eight years to hiring an attorney who could help me resolve my immigration situation.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The government also argues that the judge who issued the Nov. 21 order preventing her removal lacked jurisdiction because by then, Lopez Belloza was already in Texas on her way out of the country. But lawyers for the student argue that Immigration and Customs Enforcement made it all but impossible to locate her.\n <\/p>\n
\n According to Lopez Belloza, when she refused to sign a form consenting to deportation and asked to call her parents or a lawyer, a \u201ctall, muscular, intimidating\u201d ICE officer \u201csaid it didn\u2019t matter if I spoke to a lawyer because I was going to be deported anyway.\u201d She later was allowed to call her family from Massachusetts, but that was before she knew she would be flown to Texas and then Honduras.\n <\/p>\n
\n In a separate filing, lawyers for Lopez Belloza said the government acted \u201cin bad faith and with furtiveness\u201d by failing to answer phone calls to the Boston-area ICE office or update its detainee locator database and by moving her without allowing her to notify her parents or counsel. They asked a judge to schedule a hearing and allow Lopez Belloza to return to the US to testify.\n <\/p>\n
\n The filings came a day after a group of seven retired judges submitted a letter to the court supporting Lopez Belloza\u2019s request for a hearing on whether the government should be held in contempt for violating the order. They said allowing the government to willfully disobey orders makes a mockery of the Constitution.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CONCORD, N.H. AP \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 A Massachusetts college student who was deported while trying to visit family for Thanksgiving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-362305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}