U.S. Chief Judge Lee Rosenthal of Houston issued a temporary restraining order Thursday prohibiting federal immigration officials from deporting a Honduran woman who came to the U.S. last month with her daughter after being tortured and persecuted in her homeland. While the case is technically about only one mother, who is being held in a detention center in South Texas, and her 12-year-old daughter, who is housed in a facility in Florida, lawyers involved in the litigation believe that the impact could be far-reaching.
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