A 19-year-old faculty scholar who was on her approach to shock her household for Thanksgiving break was detained at a Boston airport and later deported regardless of a federal decide’s order blocking her elimination, in keeping with her lawyer.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, who entered the U.S. from Honduras when she was 8 years previous, was about to board her flight to Texas final Friday to go to her mother and father and siblings when airport authorities instructed her to step apart, her lawyer Todd Pomerleau instructed ABC Information.
Lopez Belloza was detained, knowledgeable that she had a elimination order after which arrested, her lawyer stated. Hours after her detainment, courtroom paperwork obtained by ABC Information present {that a} federal decide ordered the federal government to not take away the 19-year-old from the U.S. and to not switch her exterior of Massachusetts.
An agent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) waits in a hallway exterior of a courtroom at New York Federal Plaza Immigration Courtroom contained in the Jacob Okay. Javitz Federal Constructing in New York on July 17, 2025. US President Donald Trump has made deporting undocumented immigrants a key precedence for his second time period, after efficiently campaigning towards an alleged “invasion” by criminals.
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However in keeping with Pomerleau, Lopez Belloza was transferred that night to Texas and deported to Honduras the subsequent day.
“She thought she was going to go dwelling, see her household, fly again, take her finals, and now she’s sitting in Honduras,” Pomerleau stated.
In an announcement to ABC Information’ Boston affiliate WCVB, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement stated Lopez Belloza had a elimination order since 2015 and confirmed her elimination.
ABC Information has reached out to ICE and the Division of Homeland Safety for a remark.
Pomerleau stated that he’ll search Lopez Belloza’s return to the U.S.
