What should have been a joyful Thanksgiving surprise dissolved into a nightmare the moment 19-year-old Any Lucia Lopez Belloza stepped up to the gate at Boston’s Logan Airport. The Babson College freshman, just months into her business degree, was minutes from boarding a flight to Austin to hug her parents and her two little sisters. Instead, federal immigration officers surrounded her, handcuffed her, and dragged her away.

According to her attorney, Todd Pomerleau, airport staff told her there was a problem with her boarding pass. But the detour to customer service never happened—federal agents intercepted her first. Within 48 hours, she was deported to Honduras, a country she hasn’t lived in since she was seven years old.

Lopez Belloza’s removal came despite a federal judge’s order prohibiting the government from deporting her while a lawsuit over her arrest was underway. Her attorney says she was never shown a warrant, a removal order, or any explanation at all. Pomerleau told CNN that every database he has checked shows her immigration case was closed in 2017.

Her father, Francis, told the Austin American-Statesman that the family’s asylum claim had been denied years earlier, but that a judge assured them they were not under any deportation order. Their life continued quietly in Texas, where he now raises Any Lucia’s younger sisters, ages 2 and 5.

None of them saw this coming.

After her arrest, ICE transported Lopez Belloza first to the agency’s headquarters in Burlington, Massachusetts. From there, officers transferred her to a military base and then flew her to Texas, where she spent the night in detention before being put on a plane to Honduras the next afternoon.

“She had chains around her ankles. Handcuffs on her wrists,” Pomerleau said. “Put on a plane and deported to a country she hadn’t been in like 12 years. It’s beyond the pale.”

Lopez Belloza grew up in Texas. She excelled in school. She visited colleges across the country before choosing Babson, where she earned a scholarship to study business. Her dream was to help her father open his own tailoring shop one day. He hand-stitched suits for her to wear to interviews and internships — the kind of quiet gestures immigrant families stack their whole futures on.

Speaking from her grandparents’ home in San Pedro Sula, she told The Boston Globe she had been excited to surprise her family, eager to share stories from her first semester. “I have worked so hard to be able to be at Babson my first semester,” she said. “That was my dream.”

Now that dream is on hold, thousands of miles away.

Her attorney says the next step is straightforward: ask the federal judge to order her return to the United States. He argues the government violated her due process rights, and that the deportation itself may be unlawful.

For now, Lopez Belloza is left waiting in the country she barely remembers, while her family in Texas tries to make sense of how a holiday surprise turned into a deportation they still don’t understand.