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Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old college student at Babson College, was detained by ICE while trying to make a surprise trip to see her family in Austin. Within about 48 hours of her arrest, the agency deported her to Honduras.<\/p>\n
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Deported Austin college student Any Luc\u00eda L\u00f3pez Belloza<\/a> did not board a court-ordered flight back to the United States on Friday after her attorneys said the federal government planned to detain and deport her again upon her arrival<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Friday marked the deadline set two weeks ago by a federal district court judge<\/a> for the federal government to return L\u00f3pez Belloza, a 20-year-old Honduran national whom U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested at a Boston airport and promptly deported during Thanksgiving week despite a federal court order pausing her removal. News of her deportation drew national attention, underscoring the reach of the Trump administration\u2019s immigration crackdown.<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n An ICE agent contacted L\u00f3pez Belloza on Thursday morning to offer her a 1 p.m. Friday flight to Harlingen in South Texas from San Pedro Sula, where she has been living with her grandparents since her deportation to Honduras, according to court documents obtained by the American-Statesman. The agent told L\u00f3pez Belloza that she would most likely be allowed to go free upon her arrival, she said from Honduras during a Friday video news conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n During the news conference and in a Friday afternoon court filing, L\u00f3pez Belloza\u2019s legal team and advocates said they believe the government is attempting to entrap L\u00f3pez Belloza upon her return, keeping her in immigration custody as it moves to deport her again.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIn all likelihood, they’re going to land a plane, hide her from us again, not even let her make a phone call \u2014 and then just treat this like a turnstile and send her back to Honduras,\u201d her principal attorney, Todd Pomerleau, said during the news conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to the Statesman\u2019s requests for comment Friday. The Department of Homeland Security, in a statement, said that it had attempted to set up a flight for\u00a0L\u00f3pez Belloza but that she had “failed to appear.”<\/p>\n Article continues below this ad<\/p>\n Homeland Security did not directly respond to the Statesman’s question about whether it planned to detain L\u00f3pez Belloza if she returned to the United States.<\/p>\n “For operational security purposes, ICE does not disclose future law enforcement operations,” the statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n