The detention of a second Venezuelan doctor in South Texas caused outrage within the medical community and others in the area, especially in a region already struggling to recruit and retain physicians.
According to reporting from The New York Times and a statement from the American College of Emergency Physicians, Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar, an emergency medicine resident in McAllen, was detained by federal immigration authorities on April 11 while traveling with her 5-year-old daughter to California for a scheduled asylum interview. Her case surfaced less than a week after another Venezuelan doctor, Dr. Ezequiel Veliz, was detained in the same region.
