U.S. Border Patrol agents detained multiple people with work permits and American citizenship in the agency's "Catahoula Crunch" immigration sweeps so far, according to immigrant rights groups and attorneys representing one detainee.

The U.S. citizens were detained by federal agents for questioning and then released, according to Union Migrante, an immigrant-rights group whose members research and publicize immigration enforcement operations in the New Orleans region.

Video provided by an organizer for the group shows Border Patrol agents putting one of the men in handcuffs after he tells them he is a U.S. citizen.

New Orleans-based immigration attorney Homero López said a 21-year-old client with a work permit and other protections the Department of Homeland Security grants to juvenil

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