Jose Rafael Alambarrio, a Venezuelan national who fled political persecution and arrived in the U.S. in 2023, was detained on January 15, 2026, during a routine annual check-in at the Dallas ICE office. Alambarrio was in the process of applying for a green card and had been granted parole while pursuing asylum. Despite having no criminal record and faithfully attending all previous check-ins, he was arrested and initially held at Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. He was subsequently transferred without notice to an ICE facility in Mississippi. His wife, a McKinney teacher, has made a public plea for his release and is struggling to fight for his release from a distance.