ICE agents in Philadelphia earlier this year.

By Josh Lanier From Daily Voice

A Massachusetts college freshman trying to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras after she was stopped at Boston Logan International Airport, according to multiple news reports. Her attorney says the move violated a federal court order and has left the 19-year-old’s future in doubt.

Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, who was enrolled at Babson College in Wellesley, had already cleared security when officials pulled her aside on Nov. 20, the Boston Globe reported.

Her lawyer, Todd Pomerleau, said she was told there was a problem with her boarding pass. She was detained soon after and taken to a processing center, a military base, and then a jail in Texas. Within two days, she was taken bound by her hands and ankles to Honduras, the Austin American-Statesman reported.

She left the country when she was just 7 years old. 

“I have worked so hard to be able to be at Babson my first semester, that was my dream,” Lopez Belloza told the Globe. "I'm losing everything."

She's currently staying with her grandparents in San Pedro Sula, Honduras.

Her father told the Statesman that Lopez Belloza did not have a criminal record and was an honor roll student in high school.

ICE told the Globe that an immigration judge ordered her deported in 2015, but her attorney disputes that. Pomerleau said the only record he can find shows the case was closed in 2017. He insists Lopez Belloza knew nothing about any deportation order.

Lopez Belloza told the Globe she was flying home to surprise her parents for Thanksgiving. She was excited to tell her family about her first semester studying business at Babson and to hug her sisters, ages 2 and 5.

A federal judge issued an emergency order the day after she was detained that preventing agents from removing her from Massachusetts, her attorney told reporters. But ICE agents proceeded with the deportation anyway.

ICE confirmed that agents had deported Lopez Belloza last week, but did not comment on claims they had violated a judge's order.

“Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, ICE is committed to prioritizing public safety,” the spokesperson told the Globe.

Lopez Belloza's attorney told the paper that ICE had violated her Constitutional rights by deporting her. He said the agency prevented him from speaking with his client until she had been deported.

As the story has gained national attention, President Donald Trump's supporters and ICE leadership cheered the move.

Border Patrol Operations Commander Gregory Bovino shared an ABC News link on X and questioned the reporter’s intentions.

“Why even mention this illegal alien was an 18 year old college student?" he wrote. "Completely irrelevant except that an illegal alien may have taken a university slot from an American citizen.”

Lopez Belloza's father told the Statesman that her deportation blindsided the family.

“In reality, we didn’t think she had a deportation order,” he told the newspaper. “If we had known, I don’t think we would have sent her (to Babson).”

Pomerleau told the Statesman he plans to continue fighting the deportation. He believes ICE should return her to the United States and pointed to the case of Kilmer Abrego Garcia as precedent.

The Stateman did not publish the father's last name because of his immigration status. He told the reporter he was risking the federal government's reprisal to alert other families in similar situations. 

“We know this is our reality, a lot of others are going through this too,” Francis told the paper. “We want others to know what’s happening. So others can be ready.”