A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, had already passed through security at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20 when she was told there was an issue with her boarding pass, said attorney Todd Pomerleau. The Babson College student was then detained by immigration officials and within two days, sent to Texas and then Honduras, the country she left at age 7.

The day after Lopez Belloza was arrested, a federal judge issued an emergency order prohibiting the government from moving her out of Massachusetts or the United States for at least 72 hours. ICE did not respond to an email Friday from The Associated Press seeking comment about violating that order. Babson College also did not respond to an email seeking comment.

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[–] Tinidril@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They should not have that expectation right now if they have been paying any attention at all.

[–] DeceasedPassenger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

The average person's thinking is generally pretty inflexible. This is a defense mechanism that works more often than not in the long run, at least historically. Trust in government institutions can be pretty hard to erode and doesn't happen overnight. Or even over months. Our media landscape is deeply broken, we live post-truth where different outlets paint drastically different realities, to the point that someone deeply living in one space thinks the other sounds completely insane and vice versa. This is not to say that objective truth no longer exists (or that it was ever very popular in the first place) but is now harder to discern than ever before. People can be very good at hearing only what they want to hear, in the way they want to hear it. Often motivated by fear. And it's now easier and simpler to do than ever before.

It's a shit state of affairs.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

No. They need their delusions. It us a critical part of who they are. It is the skin that keeps the worry out, the spine that keeps them upright. They become the lie, the eternal struggle against truth; you cannot remove it without killing them.

[–] chosensilence@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

some may be delusional but i bet a good percentage of kidnapped and deported people here think they’re safe because of documentation and court orders.