Babson College Student Deported to Honduras Despite Court Order
Sunday, November 30, 2025
A 19-year-old Babson College freshman was detained at Boston Logan Airport and deported to Honduras within 48 hours while trying to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving—allegedly in violation of a federal judge's emergency stay order.
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a business major on scholarship at the prestigious Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, was detained by ICE on November 20 at Boston Logan International Airport after her boarding pass triggered a flag at the gate.
The teen, who came to the U.S. from Honduras at age 7, was attempting to surprise her Austin-based family for Thanksgiving. Despite her attorney Todd Pomerleau securing an emergency federal court order on November 21 prohibiting her removal from Massachusetts or the U.S., ICE deported Lopez Belloza to Honduras within approximately 48 hours, flying her through Texas with her ankles and wrists shackled. She is now staying with her grandparents in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, a country she hasn't visited since childhood. Her attorney has vowed to continue fighting in federal court to bring her back, citing what he calls "an alphabet soup of constitutional violations."
Key Facts
- • Lopez Belloza, 19, was detained on November 20 at Boston Logan Airport while boarding a domestic flight to Texas
- • ICE claims she had a deportation order from 2015; her attorney says she was unaware of any order and her family's asylum case was closed in 2017
- • A federal judge issued an emergency stay on November 21 at 6:10 p.m.—but ICE had already flown her to Texas around that time
- • She arrived in the U.S. at age 7 in 2014, graduated from IDEA-Rundberg in Austin, and earned a scholarship to Babson College
- • Her attorney calls this the first case he's worked where a client was detained while flying domestically, signaling expanded ICE airport enforcement