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BOSTON — <\/span>A federal judge should order the Trump administration to come up with a plan to return a Babson College student<\/a> mistakenly deported to Honduras just before Thanksgiving, her lawyer said in a court document filed Friday.<\/p>\n Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old freshman, was detained at Boston\u2019s airport on Nov. 20 as she was preparing to fly to surprise her family in Texas for the holidays. She was flown to Honduras two days later. This happened despite an emergency court order to keep her in the U.S. for at least 72 hours. Government lawyers in court admitted they violated the judge\u2019s order, but they argued the court lacks jurisdiction. <\/p>\n \u201cPetitioner is not asking this court to micromanage foreign affairs or dictate outcomes beyond the Government’s power,\u201d her lawyer Todd Pomerleau wrote. \u201cInstead, the petition asks for a bounded, transparent and practical process: require the Government to identify and pursue steps available to it \u2014 across DHS components and, if necessary in coordination with the Department of State \u2014 to return petitioner to the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n Pomerleau is asking the judge to order the government to come up with a plan within 14 days. <\/p>\n Among the proposed scenarios is returning Belloza to the U.S. \u201cfor the limited and urgent purpose of restoring the status quo ante and allowing Petitioner to pursue appropriate immigration proceedings.\u201d She also could be allowed to continue to pursue a pending T visa, granted to those who were subject to human trafficking. Another option would be a student visa, though Pomerleau noted that \u201ctypically requires consular processing and will be complicated by the existence of a final order of removal and related inadmissibility issues.\u201d<\/p>\n A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n Lopez Belloza, whose family emigrated from Honduras to the U.S. in 2014, is currently staying with grandparents and studying remotely. She is not detained and was recently visiting an aunt in El Salvador.<\/p>\n Her case is the latest involving a deportation carried out despite a court order. Kilmar Abrego Garcia<\/a> was deported to El Salvador even though there was a ruling that should have prevented it. The Trump administration initially fought efforts to bring him back to the U.S. but eventually complied after the U.S. Supreme Court weighed in. And last June, a Guatemalan man identified as O.C.G. was returned to the U.S.<\/a> after a judge found his removal from Mexico likely \u201clacked any semblance of due process.\u201d<\/p>\n Pomerleau referenced both cases in Friday’s court filing.<\/p>\n At a federal court hearing Tuesday in Boston, the government argued the court lacks jurisdiction because lawyers for Lopez Belloza filed their action several hours after she arrived in Texas while en route out of the country. But the government also acknowledged it violated the judge\u2019s order.<\/p>\n