Immigration and Customs Enforcement is under scrutiny after the Trump administration admitted it wrongly deported a college student trying to visit her family, and apologized for the mistake. Any Lucia López Belloza, a 19‑year‑old Babson College freshman, was detained at Boston Logan Airport in November as she tried to fly to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. Within about 48 hours she was flown to Honduras, even though a federal judge had issued an emergency order instructing the government to keep her in the U.S. for at least 72 hours. The government’s apology In a Boston federal court hearing, a Justice Department lawyer said “on behalf of the government, we want to sincerely apologize,” calling it an inadvertent mistake by a single ICE officer who misunderstood the court order. The officer failed to activate an alert system and did not notify ICE officials in Texas that the removal had to be halted, later admitting he wrongly believed the order no...
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