To: U.S. Congress
Bring Any Lucia Lopez Belloza Home Before the Holidays
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While traveling home to her family for Thanksgiving, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was unlawfully deported to Honduras, a country she hadn’t seen since she was seven years old. I urge you to speak out and take action to bring her home immediately.
If you are already speaking out, I thank you for doing so and urge you to keep going.
If you are already speaking out, I thank you for doing so and urge you to keep going.
Why is this important?
On Thanksgiving Day, college freshman Any Lucia Lopez Belloza arrived at Logan Airport in Boston to travel home to Austin. Instead of spending the holiday with her family, she was surrounded, handcuffed, and dragged out of the airport by federal immigration agents.
48 hours later, the 19-year-old had chains placed around her wrists, waist, and ankles and — in violation of court orders — was put on a deportation flight to Honduras, a country she hadn’t seen since she was seven years old and which her family left to seek asylum in the United States.
Lopez Belloza’s story is all too common amidst Trump and Stephen Miller’s heinous deportation campaign.
We’ve seen this kind of injustice happen before, like when Kilmar Abrego Garcia was mistakenly and illegally deported to an infamous mega-prison in El Salvador. Thanks to tireless public pressure and multiple judicial rulings, today Abrego Garcia is back with his family. Now it’s time to do the same for Any Lucia.
Members of Congress, including Rep. Greg Casar (TX), Rep. Jake Auchincloss (MA), and Senator Ed Markey (MA), are already speaking out to demand her safe return. But we know it’s going to take a resounding response from an even wider swath of lawmakers to right this wrong and ensure she’s not forgotten. That starts with you.