April 6, 2026 — Timeline — Standing Record

Apr 6

CBP detained Venezuelan physician Dr. Ezequiel Veliz at Texas checkpoint over disputed status

On April 6, 2026, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents detained Dr. Ezequiel Veliz, a Venezuelan-born family-medicine resident physician at Knapp Medical Center in Weslaco, at the Sarita Border Patrol checkpoint in South Texas while he and his husband, Joseph Williams, drove from the Rio Grande Valley to Houston. Veliz had lived in the U.S. for about nine years and lost his work authorization in late 2025 when the Trump administration terminated Temporary Protected Status for Venezuelan nationals, though he had a pending green card application based on his marriage to Williams, a U.S. citizen; agents took him to a migrant detention facility in McAllen to await an immigration court hearing.

Apr 6

Education Department terminates six civil-rights agreements protecting transgender students

On April 6, 2026, the U.S. Department of Education announced it had terminated six civil-rights resolution agreements — reached with five school districts and one college under the Obama and Biden administrations — that protected transgender students from discrimination. The terminations end federal enforcement of obligations such as staff training on students' names and pronouns and access to facilities matching gender identity; in one case the department went further, requiring Delaware Valley School District (PA) to affirmatively roll back its antidiscrimination protections, which its board did in late March.

Apr 6

Katy, Texas police officer Sergio Rodriguez indicted, fired for using Flock cameras to stalk ex-wife 2,386 times

Katy Police Department officer Sergio Rodriguez was indicted April 6, 2026, in Fort Bend County on felony charges of stalking and misuse of official information, and fired from the department April 20 after an internal-affairs investigation found he used the Flock automated license-plate-reader system 2,386 times over roughly 11 months to track his ex-wife, Kayland Johnson, and placed a GPS tracking device on her vehicle. Court records show the indicted conduct occurred between November 2024 and April 2025; Johnson reported the tracking to Katy police in October 2025, and Rodriguez admitted during the department's investigation that it was a "dumb decision" with "no excuse." Fort Bend County prosecutors said it was the first case their office has charged for Flock misuse.