A 19-year-old faculty pupil who was on her technique to shock her household for Thanksgiving break was detained at a Boston airport and later deported regardless of a federal choose’s order blocking her elimination, in line with her legal professional.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, who entered the U.S. from Honduras when she was 8 years outdated, was about to board her flight to Texas final Friday to go to her dad and mom and siblings when airport authorities advised her to step apart, her legal professional Todd Pomerleau advised ABC Information.
Lopez Belloza was detained, knowledgeable that she had a elimination order after which arrested, her legal professional stated. Hours after her detainment, courtroom paperwork obtained by ABC Information present {that a} federal choose 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 Court docket 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 in opposition to an alleged “invasion” by criminals.
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However in line with Pomerleau, Lopez Belloza was transferred that night to Texas and deported to Honduras the following 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.
