Boston taps into ‘spirit of rebellion’ as it resists ICE’s immigration crackdown

The city is responding with strategized resistance' as masked men roam the streets carrying out immigration raids at traffic stops, supermarkets and courthouses

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza will not be home for Christmas. The 19-year-old freshman was on a business scholarship at Babson College near Boston, when she decided to take a surprise flight home to Austin, Texas, to spend Thanksgiving with her parents and sisters.

Just before she boarded her flight at Logan airport on 20 November, she was arrested by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and within 48 hours was deported back to Honduras, a country she left aged seven seeking asylum, with chains on her waist, ankles and wrists.