Any Lucia Lopez Belloza: Deported student refuses flight back to US following threat of second deportation
Source: Reuters
Deported student refuses flight back to US following threat of second deportation
By Nate Raymond
Fri, February 27, 2026 at 4:19 PM EST
3 min read
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Lopez Belloza told reporters she had been excited to learn on Thursday the administration had arranged for a flight to take her home.
"Hours later, that excitement turned into a nightmare," Lopez Belloza said.
She said a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer misled her by repeatedly telling her on Thursday that if she boarded the plane, she would be released upon landing in the United States.
"I believed him for a second," she said. "I pictured stepping off of the plane and finally being free."
Yet in court filings on Thursday afternoon, the administration said it planned to move to deport her again once she arrived. It said it had the authority to detain her if she took the ICE flight from Honduras to Texas because she was already subject to a final order of removal, which was issued when she was 11.
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