These Nevadans have protected immigration status. Why are they being detained by ICE?

This spring, immigration agents detained a Nevada resident who held temporary protected status (TPS), a type of special deportation protection for immigrants from highly dangerous countries such as Venezuela or Ukraine. The man in the case, Lucio Alexander Bernal Munoz, had lived in Las Vegas for decades, according to court records, migrating to the U.S. in the 1990s from El Salvador. After he was charged with drug possession in April, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement took him into custody, alleging he did not have a valid visa and was not properly admitted into the country. At the time of the arrest, Bernal Munoz was waiting for his status to be renewed. "That was the basis for his removal proceedings, and that's not true," Bernal Munoz's attorney, Melissa Corral, said in an interview. In recent months, immigration officials have quietly detained or even tried to deport several TPS recipients in Nevada.

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