"A Venezuelan journalist living in Florida recently spent nearly two weeks in federal immigration custody, highlighting the Trump administration’s widening immigration enforcement net.
On Oct. 12, the Florida Highway Patrol in Gainesville pulled over Gustavo Giménez Sánchez, a political-asylum seeker whom federal officials had interviewed 12 days prior to his detention to determine whether to grant him refugee status, which remains pending.
Giménez Sánchez, 42, who lives in Gainesville, told the Herald he had just finished delivering food orders when troopers stopped him.
Government records show Giménez Sánchez entered the U.S. on a tourist visa in July 2023 and received Temporary Protected Status in October 2023. He applied for asylum before his TPS expired in April. The Herald could not find any criminal records for Giménez Sánchez, who also said he did not have any arrests or convictions."
