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Your OP tramples all over the concept of federalism.
First let me get this out of the way. What happened to your friend sucks. It sucks big time for her, and it sucks for you too to possibly lose a friend in that manner. But I hope you can see that instances like this, sucky or not sucky, are not enough to completely rewrite how all of government works.
Simply put, immigration is a federal issue. The rules as to who may or may not enter and stay in this country are federal rules. If you think about this it makes sense. The borders between states are totally free. It is not the individual state's job to determine who can or cannot be there.
So when a state judge determines that the court won't push for deportation, this is a person who has absolutely no say in the federal government. No one in the federal government which has total control over immigration policy has vested any power at all in the state court. State courts simply cannot tell the federal government how to run immigration policy.
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