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Mateo Moreno

ICE Keeps Venezuelan Soccer Pro Detained as Third Bond Bid Fails

Venezuela's Aragua Homero Calderon (L) and Colombia's Equidad Carlos Rodriguez vie for the ball during the Copa Sudamericana football tournament group stage match at the UCV Olympic Stadium in Caracas on May 13, 2021. (Credit: Photo by Yuri CORTEZ / AFP) (Photo by YURI CORTEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

An immigration judge rejected a third bid to free Homero Calderón on Aug. 18, keeping the Venezuelan professional soccer player in custody for a seventh straight month. The judge found no meaningful change in circumstances since two earlier denials, and the government's own attorney argued against releasing him, according to an account by Univision's N+. For Calderón's mother, Carolina Gazui, the hardest part isn't the detention itself but not knowing how long it will last. "What worries Homero most is time," she told Univision.

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