
Ani Lucia Lopez-Bellosa
Immigrant who crossed from Honduras as a child and later a college student; shares her experience being detained and deported under stepped-up immigration enforcement during the Trump administration.
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Jan 25, 2026 • 28min
Trump’s first year back: for better and for worse
Ani Lucia Lopez-Bellosa, an immigrant detained and later deported after crossing from Honduras as a child, shares her immigration ordeal. Sherry Blanchard, a bookkeeper tied to a four-generation Louisiana shrimping family, describes the industry’s collapse and the impact of tariffs. They discuss intensified immigration enforcement, personal consequences of deportation, the shrimping economy’s decline, and how tariffs reshaped prices and livelihoods.


