BOSTON
As a deportation flight carried her to Texas, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza grappled with a single, unanswered question: why? The 19-year-old Babson College freshman, with no criminal record, had no reason to believe she would be sent back to Honduras.
“It just shocked me. I don’t know, like I was numb,” Lopez Belloza told The Associated Press from her grandparents’ home in Honduras, where she now lives.
On Nov. 20, she was detained at Boston’s airport as she prepared to board a flight to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving. Two days later, she was deported to a country she hadn’t seen since she was 8 years old.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has acknowledged the deportation was a mistake, coming despite a Massachusetts judge’s order that she remain in the country. But the apology has done little to clarify her future.
On Friday, her lawyer petitioned a federal judge to compel the Trump administration to devise an immediate plan for her return, seeking to overturn a bureaucratic error that upended her life.
By James Kisoo
