Deported Student’s Case Highlights Flaws in Immigration Enforcement and Legal Oversight

When Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old freshman at Babson College, tried to board a flight home to Texas for Thanksgiving, she never expected to be torn from the United States and sent back to Honduras. Yet on November 20, at Boston’s Logan International Airport, federal authorities detained her—then deported her two days later despite what her attorney says was an active court order preventing such action. This troubling incident underscores a deeper crisis in America’s immigration system: how easily bureaucratic failures and legal oversights can strip young people with ties to our country of their chance at the American Dream,...