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‘I do not feel safe’: Venezuelan woman with TPS shares ordeal after being detained at local ICE facilities for nearly 3 weeks

Katherine Langford
Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 5:19 PM
‘I do not feel safe’: Venezuelan woman with TPS shares ordeal after being detained at local ICE facilities for nearly 3 weeks — WSVN 7 Broward, Pembroke Pines Health news
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A Venezuelan woman with temporary protected status is sharing her story after she was detained by United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement and held at two of the agency s South Florida facilities for nearly three weeks. Claudia Rodriguez opened up about her ordeal on Monday during a news conference held at the Sunrise office of U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. Rodriguez said she was detained by ICE agents at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport while trying to catch a flight to North Carolina back in July. She said that what she witnessed was inhumane, indicating that many of the people she was detained with, some of whom have cancer, did not receive the necessary medical care. Rodriguez was released from the ICE facility in Miramar on Monday afternoon and is now back with family. She told reporters that she is not sure what the future holds. I do not feel safe. I do not feel safe because I have also heard stories that people have gotten ou

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