Lucia Lopez Pelozaa 19-year-old Honduran student, Deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers (Icefor its abbreviation in English) While trying to travel from Boston to Texas for Thanksgiving. The young woman confirms that she did not have any deportation order.
The incident occurred at Logan International Airport in Boston, when the student passed through security control. There they informed him of his presence Problem with your boarding pass.
Shortly after the warningwas arrested by immigration officials. Within just two days, she was sent to Texas and then to Honduras, a country she left when she was seven years old. “It was completely destroyed.”His attorney, Todd Pomerleau, explained.
When Peloza received the news, she began having a panic attack and was able to speak briefly with her parents, who were waiting for her in Texas to celebrate Thanksgiving.
“I thought: “Let me deal with whatever he says, because he just said they’re going to deport me.”“, recalls Lopez Peloza in an interview with Boston Globe. “I couldn’t even breathe.”
Forty-eight hours after his arrest, he was on a bus near a runway in Texas Handcuffs around his wrists and shackles around his feet. Since most of his companions were from Honduras, he realized he could leave the United States the same day.
At that time, his attention was focused on two important points: his career situation at Babson College and his family, which included his two sisters, ages two and five.
“Final exams are coming up, next week, and I haven’t been able to study. “I couldn’t do any of that.” Lopez-Peloza said.
The young woman was traveling to Texas to spend the holiday with her family. I hadn’t seen them in over three months and I wanted to tell them about their first year at university.
According to reports from APICE claims that the immigration judge There was Lopez was ordered deported in 2015, ten years ago. However, Pomerleau indicated that he was not aware of the existence of this provision, and that the only record he found indicated this The student’s case was closed in 2017.
“They hold her responsible for something, they say, that happened a decade ago,” Something she had no idea about and for which they provided no evidence.” The lawyer said.
The day after the arrest, a federal judge issued an emergency order banning the Trump administration Expel the student from Massachusetts Or from the United States for at least 72 hours. Lopez was deported during that time period.
The 19-year-old student is at her grandparents’ home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.
At the moment, the young immigrant Consider enrolling at a local university If circumstances do not allow you to complete your education at Babson.
“I feel very strong now,” Lopez-Peloza said. “I can’t go back in time anymore.”