Any Lucía López Belloza was trying to board a flight from Boston to Austin when immigration enforcement agents arrested her on November 20. The Babson College freshman had planned to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. But within 48 hours, López Belloza was instead deported to Honduras, a country she left as a 7-year-old child when her family came to the U.S. to seek asylum.

López Belloza was expelled despite a court order blocking the government from doing so while her immigration case is pending. Trump administration officials have called her a “criminal,” and the Department of Homeland Security claims López Belloza entered the country without authorization in 2014 and that an immigration judge ordered her removal in 2015. “She received full due process and was

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