Overview
- Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, was stopped at the boarding gate at Boston Logan on Nov. 20 and detained by immigration agents.
- A federal judge issued an emergency order on Nov. 21 barring her transfer out of Massachusetts or the United States for 72 hours.
- Her lawyer says ICE moved her through facilities to Texas and deported her to Honduras roughly 48 hours after the arrest.
- DHS says an immigration judge ordered her removed in 2015, while her attorney says the only record he has found shows the case closed in 2017.
- She is staying with relatives in Honduras as her attorney pursues habeas litigation to challenge the removal and seek her return; ICE has not addressed the alleged violation of the order.