Venezuelan Johan Rodríguez denounces federal agents that beat his wife

• Venezuelan claims that his wife was beaten.
• Federal agents mistreated her.
• Johan Rodríguez Herrera denounces humiliation.

«Go and collect your documents. We don’t want anyone here,» were the harsh words allegedly spoken to an immigrant by US federal agents.

All this while crossing through the barbed wires at the border between Mexico and the United States.

Her husband, Johan Rodríguez Herrera, claims that she was «humiliated» and even «beaten.»

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Venezuelan Johan Rodríguez and his tragedy

This is the story of Joriely Alexandra Rojas Gómez, a 26-year-old Venezuelan who traversed the continent from south to north without imagining what awaited her just steps away from the American dream.

Her husband, Johan Rodríguez Herrera, now recounts to MundoNow that episode that keeps him on edge, unsure of how it will end.

It all began on the sidelines of Gate 36 on the American side, her husband explains, after the agents took away everyone’s documents.

«Those same soldiers grabbed their documents and threw them into the river, telling them, ‘Go, pick up your documents, we don’t want anyone here,'» he explained.

He reports abuse of his wife

According to Rodríguez Herrera, the worst was yet to come.

«A female military, a guard, comes over; she grabs her, she was sitting down, lifts her by the arms and says, ‘Get out of here, we don’t want you here, you just don’t seem to understand’… in broken Spanish, because she was American,» he said.

The situation didn’t stop there for his wife, as the Venezuelan man also claims she was beaten.

«She was thrown to the ground again. As she was thrown to the ground, she was hit very hard on the tailbone and kicked,» he recounted.

Venezuelan talks about federal agents and what his wife experienced

And he continued: «As she was kicked, she called out to two male soldiers who grabbed her: one by the arms and the other by the legs,» Rodríguez explains.

The guards wanted to force her and another group of migrants to return to Mexico through the same hole in the barbed wire fence through which they entered US territory on March 21st.

The migrant allegedly told her husband that amidst the fear and tension in the area, she attempted to cross again.

«Because she saw that at that moment, it was the time of the disturbances that everyone talks about,» he recounted.

Danger at the border

The Venezuelan woman’s desire to cross the border again was shared by many of the migrants at the scene.

It was at that moment when some cameras captured how the group of undocumented migrants clashed with federal agents to cross over to the El Paso, Texas side.

The video of the chaos quickly went viral on the internet.

At that time, the Border Patrol detained between 400 to 600 migrants… among whom, Rodríguez says, his wife was included.

The woman is arrested at ICE

The woman is now being held in an ICE detention center on criminal charges of «disturbance,» although he insists that she did not participate in the riot.

«My wife mainly wanted to go there. We are in Peru, and here in Peru, many things have happened with organized crime; it is very difficult, and we did everything possible for her to leave,» the man said.

Johan Rodríguez Herrera requests that his wife be released, that the criminal charges against her be dropped, and that the five thousand dollars imposed on her as bail be dismissed.

He assures that she is alone and does not have support or know what the judicial process imposed on her will be like.