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19-Year-Old Babson Student Deported to Honduras Despite Federal Judge’s Order

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old Babson College freshman, was detained at Boston Logan Airport on Nov. 20 and deported to Honduras on Nov. 22 despite a federal order blocking her removal. Her attorney says she cleared TSA before being handcuffed, transported out of state and expelled. Legal advocates say she had protections and was denied her day in court; her legal team is seeking answers and working to return her to the U.S.

09:14 AM, 11/28/2025Politics
19-Year-Old Babson Student Deported to Honduras Despite Federal Judge’s Order

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a 19-year-old freshman at Babson College, was detained at Boston Logan Airport on Nov. 20 while preparing to board a flight to Texas and was deported to Honduras two days later, her attorney says. Court records show a U.S. district judge had ordered that she not be removed from the United States or transferred outside Massachusetts, but Lopez Belloza was nevertheless moved to a detention facility in Texas on Nov. 21 and deported on Nov. 22.

Lopez Belloza, who came to the U.S. from Honduras at age 8, cleared Transportation Security Administration screening before she was approached by officers, according to her lawyer, Todd Pomerleau. Pomerleau, founder of the nonprofit Mass Deportation Defense, says she was handcuffed, taken to a van and transported to the local ICE field office without notice.

"She had protection from being removed, and she was supposed to get her day in court," Pomerleau said. "What they did to her is just so unconstitutional on so many levels. We are not stopping until we get an answer and until she is brought back."

Court documents obtained by the family indicate U.S. District Judge Allison D. Burroughs had entered an order barring removal or out-of-state transfer. Despite that order, Lopez Belloza was moved out of Massachusetts and expelled from the country, according to the timeline provided by her legal team.

Lopez Belloza is a business major who had just begun her first semester. From her grandparents’ home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, she said attending Babson had been her dream and that she now fears losing the opportunity and the investments her family made. She had hoped to use her degree to help her father open a tailoring shop.

Nayna Gupta, policy director at the American Immigration Council, is working with the family and cautioned that people with final orders or unclear paperwork can be especially vulnerable to rapid removal. Lopez Belloza’s legal team says it will pursue all available remedies to clarify the record and seek her return.

Requests for comment were sent to Lopez Belloza and her father, Babson College, the Department of Homeland Security and the Boston immigration court.

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