A 19-year-old college student was deported to Honduras just before Thanksgiving after being detained by immigration authorities at Boston Logan International Airport. Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, who had planned to surprise her parents in Texas for the holiday, described her experience as traumatic. "I burst into tears because I couldn't believe it, and spending the night there, sleeping on the floor," she said in an exclusive interview from Honduras.

Lopez Belloza entered the U.S. from Honduras with her family when she was 8 years old. She was detained last Friday while attempting to board her flight. "When they told me, 'You're going to come with us,' I was like, 'Oh, I have a plane that I literally have to be there right now.' They're like, 'No, you're not even going to go on the plane,'" she recounted.

Despite a federal judge's order prohibiting her removal from the U.S. and transfer outside of Massachusetts, Lopez Belloza was moved to a detention center in Texas that evening and deported the following day. "It feels unfair," she said. "If there was an order, then why did everything happen to me so fast, within three days?"

A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security stated that Lopez Belloza had an order for removal issued in 2015. However, she expressed surprise at this information. "On November 20, CBP arrested Any Lopez-Belloza, an illegal alien from Honduras, as she was attempting to board a flight at Boston Logan International Airport," the spokesperson said. They added that she had illegally remained in the U.S. since her entry in 2014.

The spokesperson also mentioned that individuals in similar situations could use the CBP Home app to return voluntarily and receive a $1,000 stipend. Lopez Belloza, however, felt her situation was unjust. "They didn't know that I was at the airport. They didn't know nothing ... and I just thought ... now the surprise is going to be that I got arrested. It shouldn't have been this way," she said.

This was Lopez Belloza's first return to Honduras since her family fled the country over a decade ago. She noted that her family believes her deportation is unfair, especially since she has no criminal record and was focused on her studies. "My parents, who they work so hard to be able to send me to college," she said. "And I got really good financial aid. I really got a good college that basically wanted me, and I wanted them."

Lopez Belloza aspired to be one of the first in her family to attend college. "My dream was for me to be in college, fulfill not only mine but also my family dream ... for me to be in college, be one of the first ones in my family to be there," she said.

Her deportation is part of a broader immigration enforcement strategy that has seen significant numbers of migrants deported under the previous administration. When asked what message she would send to the President, Lopez Belloza said, "Why is he getting people who are living in the United States working day and night, people like me, who are in college, doing their dreams, having an education?"