John Hawkinson

Student Remains in Honduras After ICE Vows to Deport Her Again

NYT writeup: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

Update from Atty Todd Pomerlau:

"It isn’t good. They plan on detaining her so she’s not coming back today."

(more)

"Mr. Sauter wrote … that Any would return on a flight “departing from San Pedro Sula, at appx 1pm tomorrow,” February 27."
… …
"to a location in “the Southern District of Texas,” id."

The other big hole my 5am brain missed is of course that Any Lopez Belloza is not in the United States _at all_, since this was all about Judge Stearns ordering the Government to facilitate her return to the US!

But update! I got a copy of the motion:

*Any

Err, sorry, she is Any Lopez Belloza, not "Amy."
(Not at my best in the 5am hour, I guess.)

Like…maybe petitioner is in the custody of someone other than Patricia Hyde, the ICE field office director, and so RGS is invoking the "immediate custodian" rule without the "unknown custodian" exception?

Or maybe she's just not in Massachusetts at all (more likely?), but why would he write that?

On the one hand, it's great you can file an emergency motion overnight and get an answer within 8 hours, all before sunrise.
On the other, well, not the answer you wanted.

Also, not sure what to make of the suggestion that there's a Massachusetts court w/ jurisdicition that Stearns lacks?

Hrmm. It's hard to tell what this is about but Amy Lopez Belloza (the Babson student)'s atty filed an emergency motion "to clarify" at 9:34pm, and Judge Stearns just denied it telling him to refile it in another court at 5:30am.

Documents are still unavailable though.

What the Defense Production Act Can and Can’t Do to Anthropic The legal answer depends on what the government is actually demanding—and the statute's ambiguities cut both ways.

OH RIGHT, this workaround should work: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

(replacing the apostrophe with %27)
[ Also, it's not browsers per se that have the problem, but, eg, following the link from bsky breaks it for me even though copy/pasting the link from bksy works fine.]
sorry for the delay

What the Defense Production Act Can and Can’t Do to Anthropic The legal answer depends on what the government is actually demanding—and the statute's ambiguities cut both ways.

It's because your URL contains an apostrophe, which many browser think is verbotten. I think you need to republish the article without the apostrophe in the URL.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

Minor updates on Columbia v Camb:
The AG moved to intervene to defend the constitutionality; plaintiff doesn't oppose that; and today's case management conference is cancelled because the Land Court is closed (despite it being via Zoom) and will be rescheduled, according to the session clerk.

Guessing here, but:
• Would probably double the project cost to demolish entirely
• And double again to add housing atop
• Grad student housing is an especially uncertain proposition w/ higher ed on defense from the Trump administration
• Housing atop academic buildings would introduce…challenges

Sorry, I had meant to post them and then I got distracted by something, maybe the Supreme Court decision or I dunno what.

Anyhow:

bsky.app/profile/john...

Slides to the Historical Commission for next month:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

Application form:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

It's an SOM building in the extended main group and part of an ensemble of such, with frontage along the public way.

I don't know how the CHC staff will view its significance.
They'll have a Demolition Memorandum in a few weeks that'll give some insight.

See also: mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/...

Err, "Stanley Gordon Brown" building.

update: bsky.app/profile/john...

See renderings bsky.app/profile/john...

cc @dantotten.bsky.social

From the (draft? preliminary?") demolition permit application:

MIT is going before the Cambridge Historic Commission seeking to demolish nearly all of Bldg 39 (Gordon Scott Brown building on Vassar St.), reaining "existing columns and slabs."

And here's the proposed new facade from the campus interior:

For context, here's the existing viewed from Vassar St.:

Got some more info. Here are some renderings for MIT's proposed Building 39 replacement:

Also nothing on capitalprojects.mit.edu that I can find.

Weirdly there appears to be no mention of this in the 2025 Town/Gown report that MIT presented to the City last month?

Whoa!
MIT @mit.edu is poised to demolish Building 39 (except the columns and slabs)?!

Tonight the @cambridgedems.bsky.social voted their slate of nominees to the #cambma City Manager for election commissioner.

Slot 1: Tom Stohlman (incumbent)
Slot 2: Patrick Barton
Slot 3: Sara Rivera

There were four candidates. Gary Mello received no votes for any of the three slots.

Summary here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

In sum: mixed result for Petrova.

She isn't getting the deposition of the CBP officer she wanted, but it's not clear how necessary that is to her APA claim, & she is going to get some additional documents to develop the record and some targeted requests for admissions directed to that CBP officer.