A Cuban doctor was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Houston on Wednesday after arriving for what her family says she believed would be a routine appointment connected to her asylum case.

Dr. Lazara Campos Cabrera, 29, had been living in South Florida after leaving Holguín, Cuba, in 2021. According to her cousin, Marianne Ramirez, she entered the United States with an I-220A form — a document the family believes allows immigrants to remain in the country while their asylum cases proceed.

“This is not a criminal. This is a person who doesn’t have any criminal record or felony,” Ramirez said. “She’s a young foreign physician who came here seeking freedom from that regime and seeking opportunity.”

Campos Cabrera later relocated to Houston with her 1-year-old daughter,

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