Rubeliz Bolívar is a doctor who resides in the United States, but is originally from Venezuela. It is the most recent case of an arrest for part of United States immigration authorities, despite being a legal resident.
According to CNN, Bolívar was captured on April 11, when she was at the airport in McAllen, Texas, along with his five-year-old daughter.
According to her husband, the doctor and her daughter could not board the plane, since they were detained. He reported that Bolívar was apprehended before go through security checks.
The husband, identified as Milenko Faria, said in an exclusive interview with CNN in California that one of the things that worries him It is the trauma that this situation will generate for your daughter.
“He told me just now that he misses his mom. And that’s not right, That trauma they put him through is not correct.“said the husband, who added that the minor, after the capture of her mother, was returned to her relatives.
Faria said that the immigration agents had asked Bolívar to explain her immigration situation, and when she showed her work permit, valid until 2030, An agent told her that “those documents were not valid because she was Venezuelan.”
The doctor was sent to the El Valle detention center, located in Raymondville. “I lost contact with her, they took her into custody at CBP in McAllen and our daughter was left there for more than 16 hours, from 4 in the morning to 9 at nightwhen they were finally able to pick her up,” Faria said.
On the other hand, CNN requested the position of the Border Patrol (CBP) on the doctor’s situation. The institution indicated, through a statement, that it ““He had remained in the country with his visa expired since 2017.”
In addition, the authorities indicated that the woman had “decided to leave her daughter in the care of a relative in the area.
The media noted that Bolívar had been in the United States for more than a decade and, according to her husband, was someone who She loved her job and had a calling to become a doctor.
Finally, CNN stated that this is the second arrest in a week of a Venezuelan doctor in South Texas, amid the tightening of Donald Trump’s immigration policies.