A Judge Blocked Her Deportation. ICE Sent Her to Honduras Anyway.

A nineteen-year-old student was deported despite a federal judge’s order to keep her in the United States.

A nineteen-year-old college student was preparing to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. Instead, she was taken into ICE custody at Boston Logan Airport, flown to Texas, and deported to Honduras within hours. The most alarming fact is that a federal judge had already issued an order preventing her removal and blocking the government from transferring her out of Massachusetts. According to her attorney, that order was ignored, overridden, or never reached the officials who carried out the deportation.

The student, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, entered the United States at age eight and grew up in Texas before enrolling in college in Massachusetts. According to the reporting, she was detained at the boarding gate, told she had a long-standing removal order, and arrested. The court stepped in quickly, issuing an emergency directive instructing federal authorities not to remove her from the country. The directive also barred ICE from moving her out of the state while her legal challenge was pending. Despite this, she was transported to Texas the same evening and placed on a flight to Honduras the next day. Her attorney told ABC News that she believed she would see her parents, return to campus, and finish her finals. Instead, she is now stranded in Honduras with no clear path back.

The Department of Homeland Security has not explained how a federal judge’s direct instruction was bypassed. ICE confirmed that she had a removal order dating back to 2015, but did not address why the emergency stay was not honored. Her lawyer intends to challenge the deportation in court and seek her return, though such reversals are rare. Her case also raises broader concerns about procedural safeguards, internal oversight, and the administration’s rapid escalation of enforcement actions across airports, colleges, and local jurisdictions.

Images in the ABC News report show ICE personnel inside federal immigration court facilities and emphasize the climate of intensified enforcement. Page three of the published material includes a reference to “thousands of immigrants” who may now qualify for bond hearings under recent legal developments. That context underscores the increased tension between federal courts and executive branch agencies during this period, particularly when emergency stays collide with accelerated deportation timelines.

Lopez Belloza’s story is not simply a bureaucratic breakdown. It reflects the growing gap between judicial authority and executive enforcement in the current environment. Orders intended to halt deportations are only as effective as the agencies responsible for carrying them out. When they are ignored or lost within internal systems, the consequences fall entirely on individuals like this nineteen-year-old student, who followed the rules, attended school, and sought to reunite with her family during a holiday break.

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Reference

Romero, L. (2025, November 26). 19-year-old college student deported despite judge’s order blocking her removal: Lawyer. ABC News.

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