Any Lucia Lopez Belloza: Trump administration won't let student deported to Honduras return

Source: Reuters

Trump administration won't let student deported to Honduras return

By Nate Raymond
Fri, February 6, 2026 at 8:23 PM EST
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BOSTON, Feb 6 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration on Friday called a judge's proposal that the government issue a student visa to a college student it deported ​to Honduras in violation of a court order "unfeasible" and said immigration authorities will not facilitate ‌her return.

Boston-based U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns had given the administration until Friday to decide how to "rectify the mistake" it made ‌when it deported Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a Babson College student who was detained at an airport while traveling to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with her family in Texas.

The 20-year-old college freshman is a Honduran national who was brought to the United States by her mother when she was age 8 while seeking ⁠asylum. Babson is located in Wellesley, ‌Massachusetts.

The U.S. Justice Department in a filing said that while it had conveyed the recommendation the judge made last month that the U.S. State Department issue Lopez ‍Belloza a visa that would allow for her return, "she appears inadmissible to the United States."

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