College student deported when flying home for Thanksgiving, despite court order

Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old college freshman from Massachusetts, was deported to Honduras after attempting to fly home for Thanksgiving despite a court order that had been issued against her in 2015. The deportation occurred at Boston Logan International Airport on November 20, after she passed through security with an issue with her boarding pass. According to her attorney, Todd Pomerleau, Lopez Belloza was not aware of the removal order and had no record of it being reopened. A federal judge later issued an emergency order prohibiting the government from moving her out of Massachusetts or the US for at least 72 hours. The deportation has left Lopez Belloza heartbroken and without her planned surprise visit with family, who she had been looking forward to telling about her first semester studying business.

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