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New: A federal judge gave the Trump administration three weeks to "rectify the mistake" it made by deporting a college s
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-judge-says-visa-warranted-mistake-deporting-college-student-2026-01-17/BOSTON, Jan 16 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday gave the Trump administration three weeks to "rectify the mistake" it made by deporting a college student to Honduras while she was traveling home to spend Thanksgiving with her family in Texas, and he recommended it issue her a student visa.
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston imposed the deadline opens new tab 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 Lopez Belloza from being sent to Honduras.
Lopez Belloza is a Honduran national who was brought to the United States by her mother when she was 8 while seeking asylum. She has said she was unaware she was subject to a removal order.
"There 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," Stearns said.
U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns in Boston imposed the deadline opens new tab 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 Lopez Belloza from being sent to Honduras.
Lopez Belloza is a Honduran national who was brought to the United States by her mother when she was 8 while seeking asylum. She has said she was unaware she was subject to a removal order.
"There 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," Stearns said.
New: A federal judge gave the Trump administration three weeks to "rectify the mistake" it made by deporting a college student to Honduras in violation of a court order, and he recommended it issue her a student visa. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
— Nate Raymond (@nateraymond.bsky.social) 2026-01-17T02:18:24.769Z
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