Attorneys appeal ruling in Babson College student’s ICE arrest case

Ajouté : 2026-06-02

[00:00:00]DISCOURAGE ICE FROM MOVING PEOPLE TO DIFFERENT STATES AFTER THEIR ARRESTS ARE.

[00:00:05]PETER ELIOPOULOS IS LIVE AT THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE IN THE SEAPORT TO EXPLAIN PETER.

[00:00:10]YES.

[00:00:11]SHAYNA SO HER CASE WAS THROWN OUT ALTOGETHER BY A JUDGE HERE WHO SAID THAT THIS WAS THE WRONG VENUE FOR IT.

[00:00:19]BUT NOW HER IMMIGRATION FIGHT HAS BEEN ON HOLD EVER SINCE THEN, AS HER ATTORNEYS FIGHT TO OVERTURN THAT RULING.

[00:00:26]AND WE ARE BLAMED FOR NOT SUING IN TEXAS, EVEN THOUGH WE HAD NO IDEA WHERE SHE WAS.

[00:00:31]TODD POMERLEAU IS ONE OF SEVERAL ATTORNEYS REPRESENTING BABSON STUDENT ANA LUCIA LOPEZ BELLOSO, WHOM ICE ARRESTED AT LOGAN AIRPORT AROUND THANKSGIVING LAST YEAR.

[00:00:42]WITHIN 24 HOURS, POMERLEAU QUICKLY FILED A LAWSUIT IN BOSTON TO STOP THE PROCESS.

[00:00:46]IF ICE DETAINS A PERSON AND WITH A REASONABLE INQUIRY, WE DON’T KNOW WHERE THEY ARE, IT MAKES SENSE TO SUE WHERE THEY MOST RECENTLY WERE HELD.

[00:00:55]PROBLEM IS, WITHIN HOURS OF HER ARREST, ANI WAS WHISKED AWAY TO A DETENTION CENTER IN TEXAS.

[00:01:01]UNBEKNOWNST TO HER FAMILY, HER ATTORNEYS.

[00:01:03]NEVERTHELESS, THE GOVERNMENT ARGUED IN A FEDERAL JUDGE IN BOSTON RULED THEY SHOULD HAVE FILED IN TEXAS, NOT HERE.

[00:01:09]THEY’RE SAYING, LOOK, YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN WHICH COURT TO SUE IN, EVEN THOUGH WE CONTROL THAT INFORMATION NOW, POMERLEAU AND SEVERAL PROMINENT ATTORNEYS ARE TAKING THE MATTER TO THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS.

[00:01:21]AND ON TOP OF THAT, 135 FORMER JUDGES APPOINTED BY FIVE DEMOCRAT AND REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTS ARE SIGNING ON, SAYING THE DISTRICT COURT JUDGE HERE IN BOSTON GOT IT WRONG.

[00:01:31]IT’S JUST THIS ENSEMBLE OF JUDGES THAT ARE ALL RETIRED NOW.

[00:01:34]SAYING THE SAME THING WE’VE BEEN SAYING FOR MONTHS IS THAT THIS CASE BELONGED IN BOSTON.

[00:01:39]WHERE ELSE COULD WE FILE IT IF WE DIDN’T KNOW WHERE OUR CLIENT WAS AT THE TIME?

[00:01:43]STOW LOPEZ BELLOSO, WAS ULTIMATELY DEPORTED TO HONDURAS, WHERE SHE’S BEEN FOR THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS.

[00:01:49]SHE’S BEEN TAKING CLASSES AT BABSON REMOTELY.

[00:01:52]MEANTIME, HER ATTORNEY IS HOPING THE APPEALS COURT OVERTURNS THIS AND SETS THE PRECEDENT OF PREVENTING OR DISCOURAGING THE GOVERNMENT TO ENGAGE IN WHAT HE DESCRIBES AS SHELL GAMES, MOVING PEOPLE ACROSS THE COUNTRY AFTER THEY’RE TAKEN INTO CUST