NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - An immigration attorney says federal agents have detained some of his clients despite them having permission to work in the United States.

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Legal Director of Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy Homero Lopez Jr. says his clients have been detained with open immigration court cases during the federal immigration crackdown in southeast Louisiana and southern Mississippi, Operation Catahoula Crunch. He says their cases often come in two forms.

The first involves people seeking asylum. Another considers special immigrant status for juveniles. That status applies to those who entered the country illegally as children and who a state court has ruled were abandoned o

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