A 19-year-old college student, Any Lucía López Belloza, was detained at Boston Logan Airport just before boarding a Thanksgiving flight to surprise her family — and was deported to Honduras two days later, her father and lawyer said.
Any was brought to the U.S. from Honduras at age 7 and grew up in Texas. Neither she nor her parents knew about any deportation order. According to her father, immigration agents only informed her of it when they arrested her at the airport.
Her lawyer, Todd Pomerleau, said the government provided almost no information about why she was being removed. He also said her deportation violated a federal judge’s order issued the day before, which temporarily blocked her removal while her case was pending.
Any, a first-year business student at Babson College, went to the airline counter on Nov. 20 after being told there was an issue with her ticket. Immigration agents surrounded her there. The Department of Homeland Security says she had a deportation order from 2015 and had already “received full due process,” but Pomerleau says he found no record of such an order in the immigration court database.
After a night detained in Texas, she was shackled at her wrists, waist, and ankles and flown to Honduras. Now staying with her grandparents, she asked her father to speak for her because describing the experience was too painful. She says she never signed any paperwork agreeing to removal.
The López family fled Honduras nearly 12 years ago due to rampant violence in San Pedro Sula. Their asylum claim was denied, and they say they were never told they needed to appeal to avoid a deportation order. Any lived in Texas with her parents and two younger siblings before leaving for college and was the first in her family expected to earn a degree.
Now she fears losing her education: “Babson was my dream. I’m losing everything,” she said.
Her case comes amid rising deportations of Hondurans — nearly 30,000 this year — and an intensified U.S. immigration crackdown. Honduran officials have not commented.
Her father says he chose to speak publicly because so many families are going through the same thing. “It’s a reality we are facing right now,” he said.