US EditionA Venezuelan doctor in ICE custody misses husband’s asylum interview after being detained at airport
DHS said she overstayed her visa since 2017, while her husband attended the USCIS interview alone after more than 10 years of waiting.
- A Venezuelan doctor, Bolivar, was arrested by Border Patrol agents at McAllen International Airport while preparing to board a flight with her American-born daughter to attend an asylum interview with her husband.
- Bolivar worked as an emergency room doctor in McAllen, a city near the Mexican border, after being accepted into a medical residency program in 2025.
- The couple had legally applied for asylum and permanent residency through employment, but Trump's hardline immigration policies led to Bolivar's arrest, part of an enforcement surge targeting less visible arrests.
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Doctor Misses Husband's Asylum Interview After Being Detained by Border Patrol
(MedPage Today) -- A Venezuelan man pleaded his case to asylum officials on Thursday in an interview that his wife, a well-known emergency physician in South Texas, planned to attend until she was detained at the airport with the couple's 5-year...
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A Venezuelan doctor in ICE custody misses husband’s asylum interview after being detained at airport
A Venezuelan man arrived for an interview with asylum officials on Thursday without his wife, a well-known doctor in South Texas, who planned to attend until she was detained at the airport with the couple’s 5-year-old daughter.
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A Venezuelan doctor in ICE custody misses husband's asylum interview after being detained at airport
A Venezuelan attends an asylum interview in Southern California while his wife, a doctor, is detained in Texas. Milenko Faria says his wife, Dr.
Almost a week after her arrest at McAllen International Airport in Texas (USA), Venezuelan doctor Rubeliz Bolívar remains in the custody of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), so she did not attend her asylum appointment. According to Telemundo, although the Venezuelan doctor was unable to meet the asylum appointment, her husband, Milenko Faria, did come to the offices of the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service (…
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