A group of 80 congress members demanded this Wednesday that the government of President Donald Trump allow the return to the United States of Honduran student Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, after the administration itself acknowledged before a federal court that her deportation was a “mistake.”

Lopez Belloza, 19, a freshman at Babson College, was detained on November 20 at Boston airport while traveling to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. Two days later, she was deported to Honduras, despite a federal judge issuing an emergency order instructing the government to keep her in Massachusetts or anywhere else in the United States for at least 72 hours. In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Todd Lyons, warned that the error committed by immigration authorities has already caused irreparable harm to the young woman, including the interruption of her university studies and the loss of the start of the spring 2026 semester. “We appreciate your acknowledgment of the error and ask that you repair the harm you have caused to this young woman and her family by allowing her to return to the United States so that she can exercise the legal options available to her,” the congressmen stated in the letter. Although the Trump administration admitted in court that it violated the court order by carrying out the deportation, it argued that it lacks the capacity to enforce it. to facilitate the student's return, a stance it had already adopted in previous cases. Among them is the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador despite a court order and finally returned to the United States after the Supreme Court intervened. Democratic legislators also expressed concern about what they consider a pattern of improper deportations, carried out even in violation of court orders.without quickly correcting those actions despite the potentially deadly or life-changing consequences of such deportations,” they stated.

This case adds to other recent ones, such as that of a Guatemalan citizen identified as OCG, who was returned to the United States after it was determined that his deportation likely lacked due process.