A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead.

[In It to Win It]

Boston Globe (Archived)

Immigration authorities detained and swiftly deported a freshman at Babson College to Honduras last week while she was at Logan Airport on her way to surprise her family in Texas for Thanksgiving, according to attorneys and a family friend.

The young woman, Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, came to the United States from Honduras with her family when she was a young child and was at Logan Thursday to catch a flight to Texas, where her parents live, according to her attorney, Todd Pomerleau.

Lopez Belloza made it through security but was stopped as she was about to board the plane, Pomerleau said. “They wouldn’t tell her why she was being detained. She didn’t understand it at all,” Pomerleau said. She was then taken to the Burlington ICE field office, then flown to Texas, Pomerleau said.

The Department of Homeland Security and Babson College did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

After a frantic 48-hour search, her family received a call from her on Saturday from Honduras, a country she had not lived in since she was a child. The federal government had quickly deported her, the lawyers said, and Lopez Belloza had found her way to her grandparents’ house and called her father.

There is talk going around that DHS is now arresting people who fly *domestically* if they have final orders of removal.

Undocumented youth should consider consulting a lawyer to find out what their record is -- especially those whose parents had prior interactions with immigration.

— Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social) 2025-11-27T16:55:09.229Z

Link to tweet

[sakabatou]

1. DHS is full of depraved animals

[Initech]

3. And they're headed by a woman who murdered her dog and threw it in a ditch.

Fuck Kristi Noem.

[Dave Bowman]

5. Someone called her Kreepy Gnome the other day.

[barbtries]

6. i like that. nt

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. Undocumented people should refrain from flying in these times

Not fair, but best to avoid circumstances like this until Dems take over again

[EdmondDantes_]

8. Sadly true.

I wonder what measures we can put in place after the midterms depending on if we take only one or both houses of Congress.

[moonshinegnomie]

10. if we take one house we can stop funding ICE....

cut their budget to the minimum they can. and specify that none of teh remaining funds can be used for removals. demand that be put in any further budgets

[Polybius]

12. We have to factor in the compromisers

If we take the House by 5, expect 10 to not go along with that.

[Initech]

4. The real criminals are in the White House!

[Grins]

7. Amerika!!!! How do you like us now?

[Celerity]

9. Nayna Gupta, policy director at the American Immigration Council, has been helping the student's family since her plight

became known and said Lopez Belloza had been the subject of an outstanding removal order since 2017, although she had not been aware of it.

“[Her family] didn’t know to show up somewhere, and she certainly had no idea of any of this,” Gupta said, explaining that immigration courts can issue such orders without the subject being present and that notifications are all too frequently mailed to incorrect addresses.

“People with final orders of removal, like this young college freshman from Babson College, are highly vulnerable under an administration that is pursuing such a cruel and indiscriminate deportation agenda,” she added, alluding to President Donald Trump’s second term crackdown on illegal immigration.

According to court documents ABC News, a federal judge had ordered the government not to remove Lopez Belloza from the U.S. and not to transfer her outside of Massachusetts, instructions that appear to have been ignored. “She was in a court process that she thought ended favorably, she was then nine or 10-years-old,” Pomerleau told 7 News Boston. “She’s a child under the immigration law. She’s under the age of 21. She’s going to college. She has zero record.

“We believe her constitutional rights were violated, the way she was arrested, not having any notice why she’s arrested, not shown any documents to justify her abrupt, egregious removal from the United States of America. “You’re supposed to be thankful this time of the year. Just be thankful ICE hasn’t destroyed your family.”

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[BidenRocks]

11. Where's Homan?

He has been invisible since the bribery sting for influence peddling came up!

Shit ain't blowing over asswipe!