A college student deported to Honduras after attempting to fly home to see her parents for Thanksgiving recently broke her silence about the ordeal, saying she was surprised and discouraged.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloca, who attends school in Massachusetts, was stopped at Boston Logan Airport on Thursday, Nov. 20, and detained by federal immigration officials, and put on a plane back to her birth country in Central America, her attorney, Todd Pomerleau confirmed to USA TODAY on Thursday, Dec. 4.
Pomerleau said his client was told there was an issue with her boarding pass, and on her way to customer service, was placed in handcuffs and removed from the airport.
In an interview with WCBV in Boston from Hondoras, the college freshmen, who is among swaths of people being targeted by ICE since President Donald Trump took office, said she was headed home to Texas to see her parents before she was taken into custody.
"For me to be in college, be one of the first ones in my family to be there... and now it's like, 'Oh, like it's not happening.' It feels sad in that end," Lopez-Belloca said in a video posted on the TV-station's website.
