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College Student Deported over Thanksgiving: Why Is Trump Targeting ‘People Like Me’?
Any Lucia Lopez Belloca was deported under a 2015 removal order she says she never knew about while trying to visit family for Thanksgiving, her lawyer said.
- At Logan Airport on Monday, Babson College freshman Any Lucia Lopez Belloca was detained by ICE and deported to Honduras, her native country.
- Pomerleau says ICE claims Lopez-Belloca was subject to a 2015 removal order, while federal court paperwork shows she entered the U.S. through Mexico in 2014 with her family, who applied for asylum.
- Pomerleau is now blasting federal officials for withholding information, saying Lopez-Belloca learned of the removal order only at detention and lacked access to counsel, possibly facing transfer to a military base.
- Separated from her family, Lopez-Belloca says the deportation derailed her college dreams as one of the first to attend Babson College and ruined her Thanksgiving travel plans.
- Hours after Lopez-Belloca's detention, a federal judge ordered the federal transport authority not to move anyone out of state or country, yet federal officials transferred her, prompting Pomerleau to demand answers.
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College student deported over Thanksgiving: Why is Trump targeting ‘people like me’?
A college student deported while attempting to catch a flight home for Thanksgiving break questioned why the Trump administration was “targeting” people like her. Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, was detained by immigration authorities on Nov. 20 at Boston Logan International Airport. She was planning to surprise her family in Texas for the holiday. “Why…
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