Administration Apologizes After Student Wrongly Detained (Full Transcript)

Name: Administration Apologizes After Student Wrongly Detained
Uploaded: 2026-01-16T04:13:08+00:00
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Description: A Massachusetts student detained at the airport before Thanksgiving receives an apology after officials admit a mistake; lawyer alleges coordinated ruse and rights violations.

A Massachusetts student detained at the airport before Thanksgiving receives an apology after officials admit a mistake; lawyer alleges coordinated ruse and rights violations.

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[00:00:00] Speaker 1: The Trump administration issuing a rare apology tonight, admitting that it made a mistake, that's their word, in the deportation of a Massachusetts college student. That student is Anilucia Lopez-Beloza. Now, she was detained at the airport. She was gonna fly home to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving. Beloza grew up in Texas after coming to the United States as a child seeking asylum.

[00:00:20] Speaker 2: I accept their apologies and I hope that, based on this apology, I'm able to return back to my studies and also to be home with my parents.

[00:00:29] Speaker 3: What happened here is she was traveling with her Honduran passport, that was her real ID, trying to board a plane and it was a ruse. TSA and immigration enforcement were working in tandem, told her her boarding pass didn't work. She was abruptly detained, taken to an ICE facility, deprived of phone calls for several days. She didn't know she had a lawyer till Monday and we'd sued Friday. I didn't know where she was.

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A Massachusetts college student, Anilucia Lopez-Beloza, was detained at an airport while traveling to Texas for Thanksgiving. The Trump administration issued a rare apology, admitting the deportation/detention was a mistake. Her lawyer alleges TSA and immigration coordinated a ruse involving a faulty boarding pass, leading to her abrupt detention, lack of phone access for days, and uncertainty about her location and legal representation until after a lawsuit was filed.

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Administration apologizes for mistaken detention/deportation of student

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Key Takeaways

The administration acknowledged an error in the student’s detention/deportation case.
The student was stopped while attempting to fly to Texas for Thanksgiving.
Her attorney claims TSA and immigration worked together using a boarding-pass pretext to detain her.
She was held at an ICE facility and reportedly denied phone calls for several days.
A lawsuit and legal intervention helped clarify her location and representation, and she hopes to return to school and family.

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Negative: The tone centers on alleged wrongful detention, deception, and denial of communication/rights, despite a later apology that slightly softens the narrative.

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