{"id":55585,"date":"2025-11-29T15:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/55585\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T15:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T15:13:10","slug":"student-deported-back-to-native-honduras-while-flying-home-for-thanksgiving-despite-court-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/55585\/","title":{"rendered":"Student deported back to native Honduras while flying home for Thanksgiving, despite court order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Concord, N.H.  \u2014 A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20 when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass, said attorney Todd Pomerleau. The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/01\/29\/fired-babson-professor-defends-controversial-facebook-post-about-iran\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Babson College<\/a> student was then detained by immigration officials and within two days, sent to Texas and then Honduras, the country she left at age 7.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s absolutely heartbroken,\u201d Pomerleau said. \u201cHer college dream has just been shattered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.78086957;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37796559\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/undated-photo-provided-attorney-todd-116345611.jpg\" alt=\"Any Lucia Lopez Belloza in her high school graduation cap and gown, holding her diploma and decorated graduation cap.\" class=\"wp-image-37796559\"  \/>Babson College student Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was detained by immigration officials when traveling to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. AP<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/24\/us-news\/assaults-on-ice-agents-skyrocket-1150-since-trump-took-office\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement<\/a>, an immigration judge ordered Lopez Belloza deported in 2015. Pomerleau said she wasn\u2019t aware of any removal order, however, and the only record he\u2019s found indicates her case was closed in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re holding her responsible for something they claim happened a decade ago that she\u2019s completely unaware of and not showing any of the proof,\u201d the lawyer said.<\/p>\n<p>The day after Lopez Belloza was arrested, a federal judge issued an emergency order prohibiting the government from moving her out of Massachusetts or the United States for at least 72 hours. ICE did not respond to an email Friday from The Associated Press seeking comment about violating that order. Babson College also did not respond to an email seeking comment.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50367107;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37796558\" width=\"887\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/worker-fuels-passenger-jet-logan-116338623.jpg\" alt=\"A worker fuels a passenger jet at Logan International Airport.\" class=\"wp-image-37796558\"  \/>A federal judge had issued an emergency order prohibiting the government from moving Lopez Belloza out of Massachusetts or the United States for at least 72 hours, but she was sent back to Honduras within two days. AP<\/p>\n<p>Lopez Belloza, who is staying with her grandparents in Honduras, told\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2025\/11\/26\/metro\/babson-college-freshman-deportation-honduras-interview\/?p1=BGSearch_Overlay_Results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Boston Globe<\/a>\u00a0she had been looking forward to telling her parents and younger sisters about her first semester studying business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was my dream,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m losing everything.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Concord, N.H. \u2014 A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7064,12595,9207,2301,9,11,10,8413,1777,6967,58],"class_list":["post-55585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-boston","tag-college","tag-deportation","tag-immigration","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-student","tag-texas","tag-thanksgiving","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}