"A family friend gave her plane tickets so she could fly home to Austin and surprise them for Thanksgiving. The 19-year-old business student was already at the boarding gate at Boston airport when she was told there was an error with her boarding pass; when she reached customer service, she was handcuffed and arrested by what she believed were two Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents."
"Home to about 11 million people, Honduras is one of the main trafficking routes for drugs moved from South America to Mexico, and has spent decades grappling with the growing power of armed gangs that control entire neighbourhoods, extort families and recruit young people. The country's homicide rate is three times the global average. Honduras is also in a political maelstrom, with a knife-edge presidential election of which the vote count has dragged on since Sunday,"
Lucia Lopez Belloza, 19, a Babson College student, had not seen her family since starting college. A friend gave her plane tickets to surprise them for Thanksgiving. At Boston airport she was told of an error with her boarding pass and was handcuffed and arrested by agents she believed to be Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Her parents contacted a lawyer and a federal judge issued an emergency order barring removal for at least 72 hours, yet less than 48 hours after arrest she was shackled and deported to Honduras. She is with grandparents. Honduras faces gang control, drug trafficking routes and a homicide rate three times the global average amid a contested presidential vote.
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