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Student Details ‘Terrifying’ Immigration Deportation to Honduras at Thanksgiving
The Lucía López Belloza had been away from her mother and father and two younger sisters since beginning her freshman year at Babson College near the city of Boston in August. A generous individual provided her with plane tickets so she could travel back to Austin and give them a surprise for Thanksgiving.
The 19-year-old university student was standing at the boarding gate at Boston airport when she was told there was an “error” with her boarding pass; when she went to customer service, she was restrained and arrested by what she believed to be two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.
“I thought: ‘I am going to see my parents for Thanksgiving, and now the shock will be that I won’t be there,’” the student said.
She was permitted a single call to her parents, who contacted a lawyer. The next day, a federal judge granted an injunction barring her removal from the US for at least 72 hours until her court proceedings could be examined.
However the next morning, she was chained at her hands, feet and waist and expelled to her birth Central American nation, a nation which she left at the tender age of seven and of which she has virtually no recollection.
The Volatile Country López Was Deported To
Home to about 11 million people, Honduras is one of the main trafficking routes for drugs transported from South America to Mexico, and has spent decades grappling with the expanding power of violent cartels that control entire neighbourhoods, extort families and enlist youths. The nation's murder rate is triple the global average.
Honduras is also in a state of political turmoil, with a extremely close presidential election of which the vote count has dragged on for days, with local politicians and experts condemning repeated attempts by the American leader, Donald Trump, to sway the electoral process.
“I never thought I would experience such an ordeal,” stated the young woman, who, since being sent away on 22 November, has been residing at her grandparents’ home in a major Honduran city, Honduras’s second-largest city.
An ‘Unconstitutional Horror Show’ According to Her Lawyer
Her rapid deportation – less than 48 hours after she was arrested at the airport – has attracted global attention as one of the starkest examples of reported violations under Trump’s large-scale removal initiative.
“Her case is an legally dubious horror show,” said her attorney, the Boston-based Todd Pomerleau, who has defended other high-profile ICE detention cases.
“She wasn’t told why she was arrested,” added the attorney. “She was shackled like she was a dangerous felon, and then deported to Honduras with no opportunity to have a legal hearing or even talk to an attorney,” he continued.
“If that isn’t a breach of rights, I don’t know what is,” Pomerleau said.
Official Statement and Juridical Disputes
Federal officials have stated the primary target of arrests and deportations was dangerous criminals, but – like most immigrants apprehended by ICE agents – López had a clean record. Lacking legal status in the US is a civil matter but a administrative violation.
A federal agency representative said López, “an illegal alien”, was arrested because she “arrived in the country in 2014 and an court issued a removal order from the country in 2015, a decade ago. She has remained unlawfully in the country since.”
Her attorney said that no one was ever presented with the deportation order, and that even if it does exist, a U.S. statute specifies that arrests in such instances can only take place within a three-month period after the order is issued – “not 10 years later,” said Pomerleau.
“Her mum came to the US because of how terrible the conditions were in Honduras, where gang members were killing and extorting people … They came here just like the Pilgrims centuries ago, for a better life and to escape persecution,” explained the attorney.
Conditions in San Pedro Sula
Honduras “has a significant out-migration problem”, said a social science researcher, a Soros justice fellow who researches deportees in the region. In the last ten years, about a fifth of Hondurans have left the country, most traveling to the US.
In 2014, when López’s family left Honduras, their home town, this urban center, was considered the most violent city of the globe and their neighbourhood, La Pradera, was one of the most dangerous.
“The children and families that I have spoken with from there described a very strong presence of criminal organizations who compelled many residents to leave,” noted Kennedy.
Organized crime takes a particularly heavy toll on females, having been the primary cause of gender-based killings in Honduras last year. Teenage girls are particularly affected, making up the largest share of female victims of assault.
“Now you have a teenager back in a country where it’s very dangerous to be a young woman, who was given no due process rights in the US,” she stated.
Pursuing for Return and Future
Pomerleau said they are now awaiting an formal response from the American authorities to the judge as to why the emergency order stopping her deportation was not respected.
“It’s possible the government will say: ‘Sorry, we erred here, and we’re going to {bring her back|facilitate her return.’ That would be the sensible and just thing to do.
“Yet they might have a different approach, and that would necessitate me to make a strong legal case that the court order was violated and seek a solution,” he explained.
“We’re not stopping until we she is returned”.
López said she was attempting to stay focused: “I am trying to be as positive and as strong as I can.
“My desire is to be able to progress and maybe continue my studies, whether here or by completing my term at the college. And one day, to be able to see my family and my family again,” she said.
Babson College, the institution she was enrolled at in Massachusetts, issued a public comment regarding her situation and saying that “our focus remains on supporting the student and their relatives”.
“My main goal in the US was always to pursue an education,” stated López. “What happened to me is unjust, because we went there to study and work hard, to advance in pursuit of that American dream so many of us dream of.”
Margaret Houston
A dedicated writer and theologian passionate about sharing faith-based insights and fostering community connections.
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