Dr. Rubeliz Bolivar, an emergency room physician in South Texas, was detained on Saturday while traveling with her 5-year-old daughter to California for an asylum interview. This marks the second Venezuelan physician detained in South Texas in less than a week, as part of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement efforts.

Dr. Bolivar, who has a valid work permit until 2030 and lived in the U.S. for a decade, worked in the Rio Grande Valley—a federally designated underserved medical area struggling with physician shortages. Despite having pending immigration cases for asylum and a green card through her Venezuelan husband, she was detained after CBP officers rejected her documentation, citing that "no documents from Venezuela are valid."

The detention has drawn condemnation from regional leaders and healthcare professionals, including supervising physicians at the **