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groundloop

(13,501 posts)
Wed Nov 26, 2025, 11:42 PM Wednesday

19-year-old college student deported despite judge's order blocking her removal: Lawyer

Source: ABC News

A 19-year-old college student who was on her way to surprise her family for Thanksgiving break was detained at a Boston airport and later deported despite a federal judge's order blocking her removal, according to her attorney.

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, who entered the U.S. from Honduras when she was 8 years old, was about to board her flight to Texas last Friday to visit her parents and siblings when airport authorities told her to step aside, her attorney Todd Pomerleau told ABC News.

Lopez Belloza was detained, informed that she had a removal order and then arrested, her attorney said. Hours after her detainment, court documents obtained by ABC News show that a federal judge ordered the government not to remove the 19-year-old from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts.

But according to Pomerleau, Lopez Belloza was transferred that evening to Texas and deported to Honduras the next day.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/19-year-college-student-deported-despite-judges-order/story?id=127914941

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Deuxcents

(24,982 posts)
1. How does this make our country safer? Defying a court order on a minor? Is her family in Texas next?
Wed Nov 26, 2025, 11:51 PM
Wednesday

This makes no sense whatsoever

DFW

(59,478 posts)
2. So now, court orders are only to be followed if Republicans like them?
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 12:01 AM
Yesterday

I wonder if ballot box results will even be respected any more. Their one-party state is ever closer to reality.

Welcome to the Soviet States of America.

AZJonnie

(2,433 posts)
5. Came here 11 years ago from Honduras means she is likely here on Central American Minors (CAM) parole
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 02:23 AM
Yesterday
In late 2014 the U.S. government created the Central American Minors (CAM) Refugee and Parole Program for certain children in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

The program was for unmarried minors (under 21) in those countries whose parent or legal guardian was already in the U.S. in certain lawful statuses (such as lawful permanent resident or Temporary Protected Status).​

It was not a general open parole for all Hondurans; it was a specific, family‑reunification‑type pathway that ran from about 2014 until it was terminated in 2017.


So, under Obama, naturally. He's so obviously jealous of Obama it's just pathetic and SAD. Such a loser!!!

And that's the Party of Family Values for ya, right there.

Igel

(37,228 posts)
8. Then there's the claim in the OP:
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 02:29 PM
Yesterday

"In a statement to ABC News' Boston affiliate WCVB, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Lopez Belloza had a removal order since 2015 and confirmed her removal."

If true, then that's pre-Trump.

AZJonnie

(2,433 posts)
9. Yes, well, as a matter of course, I don't believe those fucking people?
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 02:43 AM
15 hrs ago

And I think the judge who ordered her NOT removed would have said the opposite about her if what the ICE fascists said were true. Just seems logical given the observations both in this particular case, and of late generally. No?

manicdem

(533 posts)
6. 2 judges, how does this work?
Thu Nov 27, 2025, 02:49 AM
Yesterday

If an immigration judge orders for removal, and a district judge orders no removal, what happens?

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