As several MSNBC hosts fretted over the recent deportation of a college student to Honduras, it was barely mentioned that a court issued a final order of deportation against her back in 2015.
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Chris Jansing Reports
December 4, 2025
12:45 p.m.
ALEX WITT: Meantime, still ahead, a cable news exclusive: My colleague, Jacob Soboroff's conversation with a student deported to Honduras just while on the way home to surprise her parents for Thanksgiving.
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WITT: We are back with a cable news exclusive. For the first time, we're hearing from a Babson College student who was deported while trying to fly home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. Nineteen-year-old freshman Anu Lucia Lopez Belloza was detained in the airport in Boston, and then held for two days before she was sent back to Honduras where she emigrated from when she was just seven years old. My colleague, Jacob Soboroff, spoke to her and joins me now. What story, Jacob -- what did she share with you?
SOBOROFF: Yeah, that's the key point, Alex, I think that this is a young woman who came to this country from Honduras when she was seven. She was 19 years old, a freshman at Babson College, going down to see her parents to surprise them for Thanksgiving. Greg Bovino, the chief patrol agent for Border Patrol that is going around the country executing the indiscriminate raids all across the United States, called her literally two day ago a criminal. That is not what she is. That is certainly not what she feels like.
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Katy Tur Reports
December 4, 2025
2:47 p.m.
ANTONIA HYLTON: Nineteen-year-old college freshman Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was deported when she was trying to fly home to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. The student is now in Honduras after she was detained at Boston's Logan Airport.
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Deadline: White House
December 4, 2025
5:44 p.m.
NICOLLE WALLACE: As Donald Trump continues to escalate and ramp up his immigration practices and crackdown, despite its deep unpopularity with the American people, his claim that the only people impacted would be the so-called "worst of the worst" has been exposed as a flagrant lie over and over again with the parents of veterans, daycare workers, U.S. citizens, grandmas all caught up in this mess of Donald Trump's mass deportation strategy. Our friend Jacob Soboroff sat down with one of those people, the college student whose story we brought you earlier in the week, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, on her experience of being taken into ice custody and deported to Honduras, a country that she has not been to or lived in since she was seven years old.
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ANY LUCIA LOPEZ BELLOZA, DEPORTED TO HONDURAS: Many people like me -- many undocumented people who are getting themselves ready to go to college, it's really difficult for us because we try to find the best that we can to be able to fulfill our dreams, and people saying, like, we're criminals, it's just not right.
WALLACE: Jacob, I mean, she said "dreamer." Are we now -- is America now -- is Donald Trump deporting dreamers obviously now?
SOBOROFF: That's certainly what it -- what it looks like. And it's not just not right. It's just -- it's complete BS that they are going after the worst of the worst, and I think it's so important that you point that out, and we point it out time and time again because I do think that there is a risk of people getting tired -- people wanting to know less -- people not feeling like this is as bad or as egregious as the family separation policy where people were being ripped apart deliberately during the last administration, but, as we've talked about over and over again, that is exactly what's happening. It is what happened in this case to Any. It is what is happening in 26 Federal Plaza in New York City on a regular basis. It is what's happening in states like Florida where the local law enforcement is deputized, and the thing about Any's case that I think probably resonates with so many people is that she was going home, as you discussed with her attorney, to meet and surprise her parents for Thanksgiving. She was a college freshman on a scholarship in business school. This person is as American as you or I or anyone watching this broadcast right now, which why I encourage everybody to scan that little QR code in the corner of the screen and watch our complete interview to see who the people really are that Donald Trump and Stephen Miller and Gregory Bovino -- who called this specific person, Any, a criminal, are kicking out of this country.
WALLACE: It's also deeply unpopular --
JONG-FAST: Yeah.
WALLACE: -- with the American people
JONG-FAST: No, I mean, what's amazing is about this administration is that this stuff is not popular, voters don't like it, and when you see interviews like this, I mean, you have to imagine that this is changing hearts and minds, right? There's no, you know, she is in college. People come -- by the way, think of the foreign students who are watching this thinking, like, "Do I want to send --?" because, you know, America gets a lot of money and American education gets a lot of money from foreign students. Think of the affluent parents who are like, "Oh, I could send my kid to the United States and they could get deported or sent to a Louisiana facility," as we've seen, or, "I could send them to Dubai and they'd be safe."
. steve malzberg
