{"id":412222,"date":"2026-01-17T04:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/412222\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T04:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T04:21:08","slug":"us-judge-gives-trump-administration-three-weeks-to-return-deported-student-ice-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/412222\/","title":{"rendered":"US judge gives Trump administration three weeks to return deported student | ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US federal judge in Boston on Friday gave the Trump administration<\/a> three weeks to \u201crectify the mistake\u201d it made by deporting a college student to Honduras while she was traveling home to visit her family for Thanksgiving as he recommended it issue her a student visa.<\/p>\n

The US district judge, Richard Stearns, imposed the deadline after a lawyer for the administration earlier this week apologized for having violated a court order that should have prevented 19-year-old Any Lucia L\u00f3pez Belloza<\/a> from being sent to Honduras. She is a Honduran national who was brought to the United States by her mother when she was eight while seeking asylum.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is happily no one-size-fits-all solution for seeing that justice be done in what all agree was an amalgam of errors that ended badly for Any,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Stearns said the \u201csimplest solution\u201d would be for the US state department to issue her a visa. The alternative, he said, would be for him to order the Trump administration to arrange for L\u00f3pez Belloza\u2019s return, with a threat of holding the government in contempt if it refused.<\/p>\n

He gave the administration 21 days to inform him of how it will proceed. The justice department declined to comment. Her lawyer did not respond immediately to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

L\u00f3pez Belloza, a freshman at Babson college in Massachusetts<\/a>, was arrested on 20 November at Boston\u2019s Logan airport while trying to travel home to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

Her lawyer sued in Massachusetts to challenge her detention, and a judge issued an order on 21 November barring L\u00f3pez Belloza from being deported or transferred out of the state for 72 hours.<\/p>\n

But by that time, L\u00f3pez Belloza had already been moved to Texas. She was sent to Honduras<\/a> the next day and remains there with her grandparents.<\/p>\n

Stearns, who was appointed by Bill Clinton, said because L\u00f3pez Belloza was outside of Massachusetts by the time her lawyer sued, he lacked jurisdiction to hear her overall case going forward.<\/p>\n

But he said the government retained the ability to remedy the \u201ctragic (and preventable) mistake\u201d of violating the court\u2019s order.<\/p>\n

A lawyer for the government on Tuesday apologized for what he said was a \u201cmistake\u201d by an officer with Immigration and Customs Enforcement who failed to properly flag the court order because he thought it no longer applied as she was out of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A US federal judge in Boston on Friday gave the Trump administration three weeks to \u201crectify the mistake\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-412222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-united-states-of-america","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}