Nearly 100 days after being deported to Honduras — far from the Babson College campus, friends and family she calls home — Any Lucia Lopez Belloza thought a U.S. government–arranged flight would finally take her back to Boston.By Thursday evening, the 20-year-old college student realized it was a one-way ticket back to detention.“I am angry. I am sad. The Trump administration continues to lie about who I am and to lie to me,” Lopez Belloza said on Friday. Wearing a pink t-shirt and her hair pulled back in a braid, she spoke at a virtual press conference just before 1 p.m., alongside her attorney Todd Pomerleau, U.S. Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, and Todd Shulte, President of FWD.US.Speaking from Honduras, the 20-year-old choked back tears as she described realizing the promise of a flight meant handcuffs, not home.“I have tried to trust what officials say, especially when they apologize for a mistake that turned my life and my family around. Instead, I have been met with the broken promises and attacks against my family for speaking up,” Lopez Belloza said. Lopez Belloza was detained at Boston Logan International Airport on Nov. 20, 2025, by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, apparently relying on a deportation order issued in her case when she was 11 years old, according to her attorney, Pomerleau. She had been trying to fly to Texas to surprise her family over Thanksgiving break. Lopez Belloza had first come to the United States with her mother at age 8 and when Pomerleau reviewed her file years later, he said he could not find any record in the government’s system indicating she had been ordered deported.The day after her detainment, she was flown to Texas with ICE agents. That evening, a federal judge in Massachusetts ordered ICE not to remove her from the United States for at least 72 hours. Despite that order, on Nov. 22, 2025, Lopez Belloza was placed on a flight to Honduras, where she was dropped off on the tarmac and left to locate family she hadn’t seen in over a decade. Pomerleau and his legal team fought for Lopez Belloza’s return in federal court over the next months, during which a lawyer representing ICE — Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Sauter — admitted federal officials “made a mistake” in her case and acknowledged the court’s order was violated. Sauter said the “mistake” was made by an ICE officer who thought the order no longer applied and failed to properly flag it — specifically saying in the courtroom, “On behalf of the government, we want to sincerely apologize,” Reuters reported. These proceedings and the apology then culminated in an order from U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to return Lopez Belloza to the U.S. by Feb. 27. Lopez Belloza said she had woken up Thursday, the day before her return deadline, believing her flight back home was secured — especially given the communication she received via WhatsApp from an ICE Enforcement and Removal (ERO) officer. That officer told her that if she got on the U.S. government–arranged flight, she would be released in the United States and “be free” when she landed, Lopez Belloza said. However, Pomerleau and Lopez Belloza received conflicting information from federal officials regarding the plane flight and her return. Officials would not confirm with Pomerleau whether she would be on a commercial flight or an ICE charter, which airport she would be flying into, or what would happen to her when she landed — even as they asked for her passport, told her she had to pay a fee to leave Honduras and later said she would be flown to Texas.To Lopez Belloza, her attorney and advocates, the mixed messages amounted to a “trap.” “That’s their apology. Unbelievable and unconscionable .... All they have to do is let her in and leave her alone,” Pomerleau said. Then, on Thursday evening, the federal government filed to dismiss the initial habeas corpus motion and to vacate her return order. Pomerleau said this meant federal officials asked Stearns to undo the ruling that she must be brought back to the United States, effectively clearing the way to keep her case out of Boston while it pursues plans to detain and deport her again. “If Petitioner was returned to the United States to the ‘status quo’ that existed prior to her removal, Petitioner still would be subject to a final order of removal and ICE would be authorized to detain and remove Petitioner pursuant to such order,” the filing reads, according to the Austin-American Statesman.Pomerleau affirmed his client would not be boarding any plane in Honduras on Friday, nor any other flight until the government guarantees she can return without being taken back into custody.Casar, the Texas lawmaker, said Lopez Belloza’s fight is now standing in for thousands of others who will never have a press conference or a legal “dream team” behind them.“If this is happening to Any, think of how many hundreds or thousands of times this is happening all over the country right now,” Casar said. “This case should send a chill down the spine of every single person watching at home.”As the federal government moves to undo the court order that was supposed to bring her home, Pomerleau and a coalition of high-profile attorneys and advocates say they will keep pressing her case and challenging the administration’s actions in court.Lopez Belloza said she is trying to hold on to the future she imagined before she was taken out of Boston. “I have dreams, just like anyone, anyone else,” Lopez Belloza said. “I want to continue my education. 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