"The sad truth is that when Any declined the flight she also waived this court's only remaining basis for jurisdiction. Any civil contempt dissolved when the government complied with the facilitation order."
"ICE is grabbing people, throwing them in vans, not answering phone calls, not responding to emails. They lied to Any. There needs to be clarity in the law. It's not just about Any. She's more than a case. She's a beautiful person, but what happened to her has happened to countless others."
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a first-year Babson College student, was detained by federal immigration agents at Logan Airport in November while traveling to Texas for Thanksgiving. She was taken to an ICE facility in Burlington and subsequently deported to Honduras, where she remains with her grandparents. Judge Richard Stearns dismissed her habeas lawsuit in U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, stating that by declining a government flight back to the United States, Lopez Belloza waived the court's jurisdiction. Her attorney argues that ICE uses tactics like rapid transfers and failure to update detention records to obscure detainees' locations, making it difficult for lawyers to file timely legal petitions.
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