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Posted on 01/14/2026 12:19:51 PM PST by Vendome
The Trump administration apologized in court for a “mistake” in the deportation of a Massachusetts college student who was detained trying to fly home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving, but still argued the error should not affect her case.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old Babson College freshman, was detained at Boston’s airport on Nov. 20 and flown to Honduras two days later. Her removal came despite an emergency court order on Nov. 21 directing the government to keep her in Massachusetts or elsewhere in the United States for at least 72 hours.
“On behalf of the government, we want to sincerely apologize,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Sauter told the judge, saying the employee understands “he made a mistake.” The violation, Sauter added, was “an inadvertent mistake by one individual, not a willful act of violating a court order.”
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns said he appreciated the government acknowledging the error, calling it a “tragic” bureaucratic mistake. But appeared to rule out holding the government in contempt, noting the violation did not appear intentional.
“It might not be anybody’s fault, but she was the victim of it,” Stearns said, adding at one point that Lopez Belloza could explore applying for a student visa.
Pomerleau said one possible resolution would be allowing Lopez Belloza to return to finish her studies while he works to reopen the underlying removal order.
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Nomex suit on....
Trump doubles down on plan for 600,000 Chinese student visas despite MAGA backlash (Fox News) — this sorta thing plus H1B makes a more sizable impact than some of these random non-criminal ICE captures.
Tens of millions of lawbreakers put all of us at risk.
Unfortunately mistakes will be made.
Apologies went out. Move on.
Why should the Trump admin apologize? Did it get the court order to keep her in the US? Whoever got the emergency court order to keep her in MA (and who does those??) should be apologizing to whomever they keep in the States against their will.
The federal judge may have said don’t remove her, but now that’s done, it’s important to note that she had an existing removal order. She shouldn’t be let back in.
I’d wager this happened many times during Obama and Biden, but we never heard about it.
1) An immigration court ordered her deported.
2) Her lawyers asked another court to stay it pending appeal. The court did and DHS was complying.
3) Add to that the complexity of her moving to another state, then visiting family out of country. Thus, DHS failed to pass the memo around to let her fly out and back into the country to comply with the order allowing her to stay for appeal.
So she's still here illegal and IMHO we shouldn't apologize for it. She should be the one apologizing ... on her way out.
MAKE HER WHOLE and move on. The courts are big on making victims “whole.” It’s the right thing to do.
Agreed. This is good thing. When you’re actively arresting and deporting hundreds of thousands this is bound to happen. The right thing to do. Next.
Exactly.
Also during the Clinton and Bush years.
“The government maintains her deportation was lawful because an immigration judge ordered the removal of Lopez Belloza and her mother in 2016, and the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed their appeal in 2017.”
She has been lawfully deported after being illegally in the USA for many years. No sympathy at all for her.
So some poor judge got their panties in a twist when their illegal order wasn’t followed.
She can enjoy being in her native country now. May millions more follow her.
“This was bound to happen and she should be returned with no further issues.
Nomex suit on....”
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The compensation for being both illegally arrested and illegally deported without a hearing should be well north of seven figures these days. She’ll be a rich girl soon.
Why are we educating Hondurans?
OK, they detained her at the airport when she was about to board a plane to go back to Honduras during Thanksgiving break. Then they sent her back to Honduras two days later, but we have to apologize? She got what she wanted, going home.
“The government maintains her deportation was lawful because an immigration judge ordered the removal of Lopez Belloza and her mother in 2016, and the Board of Immigration Appeals dismissed their appeal in 2017. Prosecutors said she could have pursued additional appeals or sought a stay of removal.”
Brought back for what? Endless due process?
Go pick her mother up and deport her too.
No, she was flying home to Texas where her illegal mother resides. She also has a deportation order that’s been ignored. Pick her up and send her home too.
The arrest was not illegal.
She had a hearing, and an appeal, and lost both.
She was in violation of a final order of removal.
The district court judge is the one who acted illegally, asserting habeas authority when congress had specifically stripped the article III courts of jurisdiction in immigration cases.
These judges need to be impeached and removed.
“these random non-criminal ICE captures.”
Not random.
You need to look before posting.
She entered illegally in 2014 and was deported back to Honduras in 2015.
“these random non-criminal ICE captures.”
Name ONE random non-criminal ICE capture ...
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