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In a potentially dramatic development in the case of a Babson College freshman who was abruptly deported over Thanksgiving, federal authorities on Tuesday acknowledged they were wrong to expel her in violation of a court order.

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“I want to sincerely apologize,” Assistant US Attorney Mark Sauter said in Boston federal court. “The government regrets that violation and acknowledges that violation.”

He said an ICE agent misread the court order and assumed it no longer applied because she was out of Massachusetts by then. Therefore, Sauter said, he didn’t flag it in ICE’s internal systems the way he should have.

“He has been counseled about that mistake,” Sauter said.

The contrition came amid one of the most heated times in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement surge, as the federal government is sending more agents into cities, including Minneapolis, where an agent shot a US citizen to death last week.

Stearns thanked the prosecutor for being “forthright,” and said he would rule later on whether they have to return the young woman or grant her a visa.

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[–] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 58 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

This is basically the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case all over again except the judge is a fucking idiot and asshole who will apparently accept any bullshit the feds come up with to say why they're actually really sorry about this terrible accident but it would be just impossible for them to do literally anything at all to fix the mess they made

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Stearns said he did not think a contempt finding seemed appropriate. However, there are the human consequences, he said. He floated a solution: Why not just grant Lopez Belloza, by all accounts a good student attending Babson on a scholarship, a student visa?

Yeah, that's a federal judge being presented with the federal government breaking the fucking law and just being like, "Doesn't look like anything to me! But I get that you're upset right now, and since you've gotten such good grades let's see if maybe we can't do you a little favor."

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 51 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Her deportation, Stearns said, was a “tragic case of bureaucracy going wrong. It might not be anybody’s fault, but she was the victim of it.”

So bring her back, expeditiously, and make it right by dropping the deportation shit. Seems like a pretty easy solution, which is why the state will not allow it to happen.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 9 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Maybe we should presume someone is innocent until proven guilty?

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 4 weeks ago

Why would they do that? The party’s plan relies upon automatic presumption of guilt. Their “administrative errors” tear families apart, which is all part of the plan.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 29 points 4 weeks ago

No, it's a tragic case of fascism going as planned.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 23 points 4 weeks ago

Someone's about to get fired....

.... No, not the one who made the mistake in the first place. It's the guy who is admitting fault and apologizing. We can't have that in Trump's America!

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago

Weird fucking way to spell fascism

[–] FirstCircle@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 weeks ago

shot a US citizen to death

The correct word, the one they're avoiding here, is "murdered".

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 4 weeks ago

Eventually they'll "accidentally" deport an American citizen dissident to some random country, and say "Oops, our bad, sorry, but nothing we can do, but we're really sorry, honest."