
Following the arrest of Ezequiel Veliz, a Venezuelan doctor who was detained by immigration authorities last week, another Venezuelan doctor was taken into custody in Texas along with her 5-year-old daughter as they were trying to travel to California to attend a scheduled hearing related to her immigration status.
On April 11, authorities detained Rubeliz Bolivar, an emergency medicine resident at the South Texas Health System in McAllen, as she was traveling to join her husband for their asylum hearing scheduled for this week.