A Boston-area college student with ties to Texas was deported while trying to surprise her parents for the holiday.<\/p>\n
Babson College student Any L\u00f3pez Belloza boarded a flight to Austin the week before Thanksgiving to surprise her family when she was detained by immigration authorities, then sent to Texas before being deported to her native country of Honduras.<\/p>\n
L\u00f3pez Belloza’s attorney, Todd Pomerleau, said she was stopped for violating a deportation order. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told KUT that order was issued in 2015, but Pomerleau said he hasn’t found any record of an active deportation order, and that L\u00f3pez Belloza came to the U.S. when she was a child.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day, this is a college student who came here at 7 years old to seek asylum with her family,” Pomerleau said. “She’s not responsible under the law for any decisions her parents made about her. She was a child.”<\/p>\n
Pomerleau said the deportation ran afoul of a federal court order filed on Nov. 21. Massachusetts U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs barred the government from deporting L\u00f3pez Belloza until a court could hear her case, which would take\u00a0at least three days. Pomerleau said she was flown to Texas and sent to Honduras on Nov. 22.<\/p>\n
ICE confirmed that L\u00f3pez Belloza was arrested on Thanksgiving, but did not say why, given the judge’s order to hold off on her deportation.<\/p>\n
“She received full due process\u00a0and was removed to Honduras,” an agency spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
A federal judge ordered responses in L\u00f3pez Belloza’s case by Dec. 3.<\/p>\n
Pomerleau said L\u00f3pez Belloza’s detention is part of a crackdown on people without legal status who don’t have criminal backgrounds and that her deportation was “beyond the pale.”<\/p>\n
“We are fighting for her. We’re not going to stop until she’s back,” he said. “She should not be sitting in Honduras. She should be sitting in her classroom … and trying to fulfill her American dream.”<\/p>\n
L\u00f3pez Belloza is currently staying with her grandparents in Honduras, Pomerleau said. <\/p>\n
Babson College says it\u2019s providing academic support to her as her case continues. The college’s President Stephen Spinelli Jr. said the school is “following established protocols” as the case makes its way through courts.<\/p>\n
“We are staying informed through appropriate channels,” Spinelli said. “Relevant faculty and staff have been informed so they can provide appropriate academic and community support in the student\u2019s absence.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Boston-area college student with ties to Texas was deported while trying to surprise her parents for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,36571,11725,36572,16609,1829],"class_list":{"0":"post-73297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news","11":"tag-babson-college","12":"tag-boston","13":"tag-college-student","14":"tag-deportation","15":"tag-ice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}