Judge gives US 2 weeks to retrieve student deported to Honduras while traveling for Thanksgiving

[In It to Win It]

BOSTON (AP) — A college student deported to Honduras while traveling for Thanksgiving in November must be returned to the United States within two weeks, a federal judge in Boston ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns issued an order that required the return of 19-year-old Babson College freshman Any Lucia Lopez Belloza by the end of February.

Stearns said he had hoped the Trump administration would come up with a solution after it acknowledged mistakenly deporting Lopez Belloza. Having failed to do that, Stearns said, he was compelled to act. He said it was up to the courts to determine her rights and the legality of her removal.

“This is not an issue for the Executive to prejudge and arrogate to itself, whatever stance it may choose to take in litigating the removal issue before a court of law,” Stearns wrote.

Belloza's attorney, Todd Pomerleau, welcomed the ruling.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/judge-gives-us-2-weeks-231657670.html

[pat_k]

1. "arrogate to itself" (executive) or "arrogate to himself" (the felon) are great ways to describe the abuses.

Perhaps too formal, but the word "arrogate" is such a good one, and so apt in reference to just about everything the felon does.

[flvegan]

2. Or else what? When they ignore this Order, then what?

I've got $10 on big fat nothing. I hope I'm wrong, but this is an administration that is profoundly devoid of consequences.